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<div class="document" id="geany">
<h1 class="title">Geany</h1>
<h2 class="subtitle" id="a-fast-light-gtk-ide">A fast, light, GTK+ IDE</h2>
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<tr><th class="docinfo-name">Authors:</th>
<td>Enrico Tröger
<br />Nick Treleaven
<br />Frank Lanitz</td></tr>
<tr><th class="docinfo-name">Date:</th>
<td>2010-02-14</td></tr>
<tr><th class="docinfo-name">Version:</th>
<td>0.18.1</td></tr>
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<p>Copyright © 2005-2010</p>
<p>This document is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this
license can be found in the file COPYING included with the source code
of this program, and also in the chapter <a class="reference internal" href="#gnu-general-public-license">GNU General Public License</a>.</p>
<div class="contents topic" id="contents">
<p class="topic-title first">Contents</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#introduction" id="id11">Introduction</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#about-geany" id="id12">About Geany</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#where-to-get-it" id="id13">Where to get it</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#license" id="id14">License</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#about-this-document" id="id15">About this document</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#installation" id="id16">Installation</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#requirements" id="id17">Requirements</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#binary-packages" id="id18">Binary packages</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#source-compilation" id="id19">Source compilation</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#autotools-based-build-system" id="id20">Autotools based build system</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#waf-based-build-system" id="id21">Waf based build system</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#waf-cache" id="id22">Waf Cache</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#cleaning-the-cache" id="id23">Cleaning the Cache</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#custom-installation" id="id24">Custom installation</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#dynamic-linking-loader-support" id="id25">Dynamic linking loader support</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#build-problems" id="id26">Build problems</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#installation-prefix" id="id27">Installation prefix</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#usage" id="id28">Usage</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#getting-started" id="id29">Getting started</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#command-line-options" id="id30">Command line options</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#general" id="id31">General</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#startup" id="id32">Startup</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#opening-files-from-the-command-line-in-a-running-instance" id="id33">Opening files from the command-line in a running instance</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#virtual-terminal-emulator-widget-vte" id="id34">Virtual terminal emulator widget (VTE)</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#defining-own-widget-styles-using-gtkrc-2-0" id="id35">Defining own widget styles using .gtkrc-2.0</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#documents" id="id36">Documents</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#switching-between-documents" id="id37">Switching between documents</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#character-sets-and-unicode-byte-order-mark-bom" id="id38">Character sets and Unicode Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#using-character-sets" id="id39">Using character sets</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#in-file-encoding-specification" id="id40">In-file encoding specification</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#special-encoding-none" id="id41">Special encoding &quot;None&quot;</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#unicode-byte-order-mark-bom" id="id42">Unicode Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#editing" id="id43">Editing</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#folding" id="id44">Folding</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#column-mode-editing-rectangular-selections" id="id45">Column mode editing (rectangular selections)</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#drag-and-drop-of-text" id="id46">Drag and drop of text</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#indentation" id="id47">Indentation</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#auto-indentation" id="id48">Auto-indentation</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#bookmarks" id="id49">Bookmarks</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#code-navigation-history" id="id50">Code navigation history</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#send-text-through-definable-commands" id="id51">Send text through definable commands</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#context-actions" id="id52">Context actions</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#autocompletion" id="id53">Autocompletion</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#scope-autocompletion" id="id54">Scope autocompletion</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#user-definable-snippets" id="id55">User-definable snippets</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#inserting-unicode-characters" id="id56">Inserting Unicode characters</a></li>
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</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#search-replace-and-go-to" id="id57">Search, replace and go to</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#find" id="id58">Find</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#matching-options" id="id59">Matching options</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#find-all" id="id60">Find all</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#change-font-in-search-dialog-text-fields" id="id61">Change font in search dialog text fields</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#find-usage" id="id62">Find usage</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#find-in-files" id="id63">Find in files</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#filtering-out-version-control-files" id="id64">Filtering out version control files</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#replace" id="id65">Replace</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#replace-all" id="id66">Replace all</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#go-to-tag-definition" id="id67">Go to tag definition</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#go-to-tag-declaration" id="id68">Go to tag declaration</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#go-to-line" id="id69">Go to line</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#regular-expressions" id="id70">Regular expressions</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#tags" id="id71">Tags</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#workspace-tags" id="id72">Workspace tags</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#global-tags" id="id73">Global tags</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#default-global-tags-files" id="id74">Default global tags files</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#global-tags-file-format" id="id75">Global tags file format</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#generating-a-global-tags-file" id="id76">Generating a global tags file</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#ignore-tags" id="id77">Ignore tags</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#preferences" id="id78">Preferences</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#general-startup-preferences" id="id79">General Startup preferences</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#id1" id="id80">Startup</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#shutdown" id="id81">Shutdown</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#paths" id="id82">Paths</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#general-miscellaneous-preferences" id="id83">General Miscellaneous preferences</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#miscellaneous" id="id84">Miscellaneous</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#search" id="id85">Search</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#projects" id="id86">Projects</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#interface-preferences" id="id87">Interface preferences</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#sidebar" id="id88">Sidebar</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#fonts" id="id89">Fonts</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#editor-tabs" id="id90">Editor tabs</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#tab-positions" id="id91">Tab positions</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#id2" id="id92">Miscellaneous</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#toolbar-preferences" id="id93">Toolbar preferences</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#toolbar" id="id94">Toolbar</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#appearance" id="id95">Appearance</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#editor-features-preferences" id="id96">Editor Features preferences</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#features" id="id97">Features</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#editor-indentation-preferences" id="id98">Editor Indentation preferences</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#indentation-group" id="id99">Indentation group</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#editor-completions-preferences" id="id100">Editor Completions preferences</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#completions" id="id101">Completions</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#auto-close-quotes-and-brackets" id="id102">Auto-close quotes and brackets</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#editor-display-preferences" id="id103">Editor Display preferences</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#display" id="id104">Display</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#long-line-marker" id="id105">Long line marker</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#files-preferences" id="id106">Files preferences</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#new-files" id="id107">New files</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#saving-files" id="id108">Saving files</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#id3" id="id109">Miscellaneous</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#tools-preferences" id="id110">Tools preferences</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#tool-paths" id="id111">Tool paths</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#commands" id="id112">Commands</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#template-preferences" id="id113">Template preferences</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#template-data" id="id114">Template data</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#keybinding-preferences" id="id115">Keybinding preferences</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#printing-preferences" id="id116">Printing preferences</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#terminal-vte-preferences" id="id117">Terminal (VTE) preferences</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#terminal-widget" id="id118">Terminal widget</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#project-management" id="id119">Project Management</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#new-project" id="id120">New Project</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#project-properties" id="id121">Project Properties</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#make-in-base-path" id="id122">Make in base path</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#run-command" id="id123">Run command</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#open-project" id="id124">Open Project</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#close-project" id="id125">Close Project</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#build-system" id="id126">Build system</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#compile" id="id127">Compile</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#build" id="id128">Build</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#make-all" id="id129">Make all</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#make-custom-target" id="id130">Make custom target</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#make-object" id="id131">Make object</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#execute" id="id132">Execute</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#stopping-running-processes" id="id133">Stopping running processes</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#terminal-emulators" id="id134">Terminal emulators</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#set-includes-and-arguments" id="id135">Set Includes and Arguments</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#one-step-compilation" id="id136">One step compilation</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#indicators" id="id137">Indicators</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#printing-support" id="id138">Printing support</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#plugins" id="id139">Plugins</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#keybindings" id="id140">Keybindings</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#switching-documents" id="id141">Switching documents</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#configurable-keybindings" id="id142">Configurable keybindings</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#configuration-files" id="id143">Configuration files</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#tools-menu-items" id="id144">Tools menu items</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#global-configuration-file" id="id145">Global configuration file</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#filetype-definition-files" id="id146">Filetype definition files</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#format" id="id147">Format</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#styling-section" id="id148">[styling] Section</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#using-a-named-style" id="id149">Using a named style</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#keywords-section" id="id150">[keywords] Section</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#settings-section" id="id151">[settings] Section</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#build-settings-section" id="id152">[build_settings] Section</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#special-file-filetypes-common" id="id153">Special file filetypes.common</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#named-styles-section" id="id154">[named_styles] Section</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#id4" id="id155">[styling] Section</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#id5" id="id156">[settings] Section</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#templates" id="id158">Templates</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#template-meta-data" id="id159">Template meta data</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#file-templates" id="id160">File templates</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#custom-file-templates" id="id161">Custom file templates</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#filetype-templates" id="id162">Filetype templates</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#customizing-templates" id="id163">Customizing templates</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#template-wildcards" id="id164">Template wildcards</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#customizing-the-toolbar" id="id165">Customizing the toolbar</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#manually-editing-of-the-toolbar-layout" id="id166">Manually editing of the toolbar layout</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#available-toolbar-elements" id="id167">Available toolbar elements</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#plugin-documentation" id="id168">Plugin documentation</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#instant-save" id="id169">Instant Save</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#backup-copy" id="id170">Backup Copy</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#contributing-to-this-document" id="id171">Contributing to this document</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#scintilla-keyboard-commands" id="id172">Scintilla keyboard commands</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#keyboard-commands" id="id173">Keyboard commands</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#tips-and-tricks" id="id174">Tips and tricks</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#document-notebook" id="id175">Document notebook</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#editor" id="id176">Editor</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#interface" id="id177">Interface</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#gtk-related" id="id178">GTK-related</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#hidden-preferences" id="id179">Hidden preferences</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#compile-time-options" id="id180">Compile-time options</a><ul>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#src-geany-h" id="id181">src/geany.h</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#project-h" id="id182">project.h</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#editor-h" id="id183">editor.h</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#keyfile-c" id="id184">keyfile.c</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#build-h" id="id185">build.h</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#gnu-general-public-license" id="id186">GNU General Public License</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#license-for-scintilla-and-scite" id="id187">License for Scintilla and SciTE</a></li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="introduction">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id11">Introduction</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="about-geany">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id12">About Geany</a></h2>
<p>Geany is a small and lightweight Integrated Development Environment. It
was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few
dependencies from other packages. Another goal was to be as independent
as possible from a special Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME -
Geany only requires the GTK2 runtime libraries.</p>
<p>Some basic features of Geany:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Syntax highlighting</li>
<li>Code folding</li>
<li>Autocompletion of symbols/words</li>
<li>Construct completion/snippets</li>
<li>Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags</li>
<li>Calltips</li>
<li>Many supported filetypes including C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl,
Pascal, and others</li>
<li>Symbol lists</li>
<li>Code navigation</li>
<li>Build system to compile and execute your code</li>
<li>Simple project management</li>
<li>Plugin interface</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="where-to-get-it">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id13">Where to get it</a></h2>
<p>You can obtain Geany from <a class="reference external" href="http://www.geany.org/">http://www.geany.org/</a> or perhaps also from
your distributor. For a list of available packages, please see
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.geany.org/Download/ThirdPartyPackages">http://www.geany.org/Download/ThirdPartyPackages</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="license">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id14">License</a></h2>
<p>Geany is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version. A copy of this
license can be found in the file COPYING included with the source
code of this program and in the chapter, <a class="reference internal" href="#gnu-general-public-license">GNU General Public License</a>.</p>
<p>The included Scintilla library (found in the subdirectory
<tt class="docutils literal">scintilla/</tt>) has its own license, which can be found in the chapter,
<a class="reference internal" href="#license-for-scintilla-and-scite">License for Scintilla and SciTE</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="about-this-document">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id15">About this document</a></h2>
<p>This documentation is available in HTML and text formats.
The latest version can always be found at <a class="reference external" href="http://www.geany.org/">http://www.geany.org/</a>.</p>
<p>If you want to contribute to it, see <a class="reference internal" href="#contributing-to-this-document">Contributing to this document</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="installation">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id16">Installation</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="requirements">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id17">Requirements</a></h2>
<p>You will need the GTK (&gt;= 2.8.0) libraries and their dependencies
(Pango, GLib and ATK). Your distro should provide packages for these,
usually installed by default. For Windows, you can download an installer
which bundles these libraries from the website.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="binary-packages">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id18">Binary packages</a></h2>
<p>There are many binary packages available. For an up-to-date but maybe
incomplete list see <a class="reference external" href="http://www.geany.org/Download/ThirdPartyPackages">http://www.geany.org/Download/ThirdPartyPackages</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="source-compilation">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id19">Source compilation</a></h2>
<p>Compiling Geany is quite easy.
To do so, you need the GTK (&gt;= 2.8.0) libraries and header files.
You also need the Pango, GLib and ATK libraries and header files.
All these files are available at <a class="reference external" href="http://www.gtk.org">http://www.gtk.org</a>, but very often
your distro will provide development packages to save the trouble of
building these yourself.</p>
<p>Furthermore you need, of course, a C and C++ compiler. The GNU versions
of these tools are recommended.</p>
<div class="section" id="autotools-based-build-system">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id20">Autotools based build system</a></h3>
<p>The Autotools based build system is very mature and has been well tested.
To use it, you just need the Make tool, preferably GNU Make.</p>
<p>Then run the following commands:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
$ ./configure
$ make
</pre>
<p>Then as root:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
% make install
</pre>
</div>
<div class="section" id="waf-based-build-system">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id21">Waf based build system</a></h3>
<p>The Waf build system is still quite young and under heavy development but already in an
usable state. In contrary to the Autotools, Waf needs Python. So before using Waf, you need
to install Python on your system.
The advantage of the Waf build system over the Autotools based build system is that the whole
build process might be a bit faster. Especially when you use the Waf cache feature repetitive
builds (e.g. when changing only a few source files to test something) will become much faster
since Waf will cache and re-use the unchanged built files and only compile the changed code
again. See <a class="reference internal" href="#waf-cache">Waf Cache</a> for details.
To build Geany with Waf as usual run:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
$ ./waf configure
$ ./waf build
</pre>
<p>Then as root:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
% ./waf install
</pre>
<div class="section" id="waf-cache">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id22">Waf Cache</a></h4>
<p>The Waf build system has a nice and interesting feature which can help a lot to avoid
unnecessary rebuilding of unchanged code. This often happens when developing new features
or trying to debug something.
Waf is able to store and retrieve the object files from a cache. This cache is declared
using the environment variable <tt class="docutils literal">WAFCACHE</tt>.
A possible location of the cache directory could be <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.cache/waf</span></tt>. In order to make use of
this, you first need to create this directory:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
$ mkdir -p ~/.cache/waf
</pre>
<p>then add the environment variable to your shell configuration (the following example is for
Bash and should be adjusted to your used shell):</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
export WAFCACHE=/home/username/.cache/waf
</pre>
<p>Remember to replace <tt class="docutils literal">username</tt> with your actual username.</p>
<p>More information about the Waf cache feature are available at
<a class="reference external" href="http://code.google.com/p/waf/wiki/CacheObjectFiles">http://code.google.com/p/waf/wiki/CacheObjectFiles</a>.</p>
<div class="section" id="cleaning-the-cache">
<h5><a class="toc-backref" href="#id23">Cleaning the Cache</a></h5>
<p>You should take care about the size of the cache directory as it may grow rapidly by time.
Waf doesn't do any cleaning or other house-keeping of the cache yet so you need to keep it
clean by yourself.
An easy way to keep it clean is to run the following command regularly to remove old
cached files:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
$ find /home/username/.cache/waf -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;
</pre>
<p>This will delete all files in the cache directory which are older than 14 days.</p>
<p>For details about the <tt class="docutils literal">find</tt> command and its options, check its manual page.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="custom-installation">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id24">Custom installation</a></h3>
<p>The configure script supports several common options, for a detailed
list, type:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
$ ./configure --help
</pre>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>or::</dt>
<dd>$ ./waf --help</dd>
</dl>
<p>(depending on which build system you use).</p>
<p>You may also want to read the INSTALL file for advanced installation
options.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>See also <a class="reference internal" href="#compile-time-options">Compile-time options</a>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="dynamic-linking-loader-support">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id25">Dynamic linking loader support</a></h3>
<p>In the case that your system lacks dynamic linking loader support, you
probably want to pass the option <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--disable-vte</span></tt> to the <tt class="docutils literal">configure</tt>
script. This prevents compiling Geany with dynamic linking loader
support to automatically load <tt class="docutils literal">libvte.so.4</tt> if available.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="build-problems">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id26">Build problems</a></h3>
<p>If there are any errors during compilation, check your build
environment and try to find the error, otherwise contact the mailing
list or one the authors. Sometimes you might need to ask for specific
help from your distro.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="installation-prefix">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id27">Installation prefix</a></h2>
<p>If you want to edit any of Geany's system configuration files after
installation you will need to know the installation prefix.  Usually this
is not necessary as you can just use user configuration files.</p>
<p>Use the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--print-prefix</span></tt> option to check - see <a class="reference internal" href="#command-line-options">Command line
options</a>. The first path is the prefix.</p>
<p>This is commonly <tt class="docutils literal">/usr</tt> if you installed from a binary package, or
<tt class="docutils literal">/usr/local</tt> if you build from source.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="usage">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id28">Usage</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="getting-started">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id29">Getting started</a></h2>
<p>You can start Geany in the following ways:</p>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">From the Desktop Environment menu:</p>
<p>Choose in your application menu of your used Desktop Environment:
Development --&gt; Geany.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">From the command line:</p>
<p>To start Geany from a command line, type the following and press
Return:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
% geany
</pre>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="command-line-options">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id30">Command line options</a></h2>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="13%" />
<col width="25%" />
<col width="62%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Short option</th>
<th class="head">Long option</th>
<th class="head">Function</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td><em>none</em></td>
<td>+number</td>
<td>Set initial line number for the first opened file
(same as --line, do not put a space between the + sign
and the number). E.g. &quot;geany +7 foo.bar&quot; will open the
file foo.bar and place the cursor in line 7.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>none</em></td>
<td>--column</td>
<td>Set initial column number for the first opened file.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-c dir_name</td>
<td>--config=directory_name</td>
<td>Use an alternate configuration directory. Default
configuration directory is <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.config/geany/</span></tt> and there
resides <tt class="docutils literal">geany.conf</tt> and other configuration files.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>none</em></td>
<td>--ft-names</td>
<td>Print a list of Geany's internal filetype names (useful
for snippets configuration).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-g</td>
<td>--generate-tags</td>
<td>Generate a global tags file (see
<a class="reference internal" href="#generating-a-global-tags-file">Generating a global tags file</a>).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-P</td>
<td>--no-preprocessing</td>
<td>Don't preprocess C/C++ files when generating tags.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-i</td>
<td>--new-instance</td>
<td>Do not open files in a running instance, force opening
a new instance. Only available if Geany was compiled
with support for Sockets.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-l</td>
<td>--line</td>
<td>Set initial line number for the first opened file.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-m</td>
<td>--no-msgwin</td>
<td>Do not show the message window. Use this option if you
do not need compiler messages or VTE support.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-n</td>
<td>--no-ctags</td>
<td>Do not load symbol completion and call tip data. Use this
option if you do not want to use them.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-p</td>
<td>--no-plugins</td>
<td>Do not load plugins or plugin support.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>none</em></td>
<td>--print-prefix</td>
<td>Print installation prefix, the data directory, the lib
directory and the locale directory (in this order) to
stdout, each per line. This is mainly intended for plugin
authors to detect installation paths.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-s</td>
<td>--no-session</td>
<td>Do not load the previous session's files.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-t</td>
<td>--no-terminal</td>
<td>Do not load terminal support. Use this option if you do
not want to load the virtual terminal emulator widget
at startup. If you do not have <tt class="docutils literal">libvte.so.4</tt> installed,
then terminal-support is automatically disabled. Only
available if Geany was compiled with support for VTE.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>none</em></td>
<td>--vte-lib</td>
<td>Specify explicitly the path including filename or only
the filename to the VTE library, e.g.
<tt class="docutils literal">/usr/lib/libvte.so</tt> or <tt class="docutils literal">libvte.so</tt>. This option is
only needed when the auto-detection does not work. Only
available if Geany was compiled with support for VTE.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-v</td>
<td>--verbose</td>
<td>Be verbose (print useful status messages).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-V</td>
<td>--version</td>
<td>Show version information and exit.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-?</td>
<td>--help</td>
<td>Show help information and exit.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><em>none</em></td>
<td>[files ...]</td>
<td><p class="first">Open all given files at startup. This option causes
Geany to ignore loading stored files from the last
session (if enabled).
Geany also recognizes line and column information when
appended to the filename with colons, e.g.
&quot;geany foo.bar:10:5&quot; will open the file foo.bar and
place the cursor in line 10 at column 5.</p>
<p class="last">Projects can also be opened but a project file (*.geany)
must be the first non-option argument. All additionally
given files are ignored.</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>You can also pass line number and column number information, e.g.:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
geany some_file.foo:55:4
</pre>
<p>Geany supports all generic GTK options, a list is available on the
help screen.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="general">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id31">General</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="startup">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id32">Startup</a></h3>
<p>At startup, Geany loads all files from the last time Geany was
launched. You can disable this feature in the preferences dialog
(see <a class="reference internal" href="#general-startup-preferences">General Startup preferences</a>). If you specify some
files on the command line, only these files will be opened, but you
can find the files from the last session in the file menu under the
&quot;Recent files&quot; item. By default this contains the last 10 recently
opened files. You can change the amount of recently opened files in
the preferences dialog.</p>
<p>You can start several instances of Geany, but only the first will
load files from the last session. To run a second instance of Geany,
do not specify any filenames on the command-line, or disable opening
files in a running instance using the appropriate command line option.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="opening-files-from-the-command-line-in-a-running-instance">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id33">Opening files from the command-line in a running instance</a></h3>
<p>Geany detects an already running instance of itself and opens files
from the command-line in the already running instance. So, Geany can
be used to view and edit files by opening them from other programs
such as a file manager.</p>
<p>You can also pass line number and column number information, e.g.:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
geany some_file.foo:55:4
</pre>
<p>This would open the file <tt class="docutils literal">some_file.foo</tt> with the cursor on line 55,
column 4.</p>
<p>If you do not like this for some reason, you can disable using the first
instance by using the appropriate command line option -- see the section
called <a class="reference internal" href="#command-line-options">Command line options</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="virtual-terminal-emulator-widget-vte">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id34">Virtual terminal emulator widget (VTE)</a></h3>
<p>If you have installed <tt class="docutils literal">libvte.so</tt> in your system, it is loaded
automatically by Geany, and you will have a terminal widget in the
notebook at the bottom.</p>
<p>If Geany cannot find any <tt class="docutils literal">libvte.so</tt> at startup, the terminal widget
will not be loaded. So there is no need to install the package containing
this file in order to run Geany. Additionally, you can disable the use
of the terminal widget by command line option, for more information
see the section called <a class="reference internal" href="#command-line-options">Command line options</a>.</p>
<p>You can use this terminal (from now on called VTE) nearly as an usual
terminal program like xterm. There is basic clipboard support. You
can paste the contents of the clipboard by pressing the right mouse
button to open the popup menu and choosing Paste. To copy text from
the VTE, just select the desired text and then press the right mouse
button and choose Copy from the popup menu. On systems running the
X Window System you can paste the last selected text by pressing the
middle mouse button in the VTE (on 2-button mice, the middle button
can often be simulated by pressing both mouse buttons together).</p>
<p>In the preferences dialog you can specify a shell which should be
started in the VTE. To make the specified shell a login shell just
use the appropriate command line options for the shell. These options
should be found in the manual page of the shell. For zsh and bash
you can use the argument <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--login</span></tt>.</p>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">Geany tries to load <tt class="docutils literal">libvte.so</tt>. If this fails, it tries to load
some other filenames. If this fails too, you should check whether you
installed libvte correctly. Again, Geany also runs without this
library.</p>
</div>
<p>It could be, that the library is called something else than
<tt class="docutils literal">libvte.so</tt> (e.g. on FreeBSD 6.0 it is called <tt class="docutils literal">libvte.so.8</tt>). So
please set a link to the correct file (as root):</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
# ln -s /usr/lib/libvte.so.X /usr/lib/libvte.so
</pre>
<p>Obviously, you have to adjust the paths and set X to the number of your
<tt class="docutils literal">libvte.so</tt>.</p>
<p>You can also specify the filename of the VTE library to use on the command
line (see the section called <a class="reference internal" href="#command-line-options">Command line options</a>) or at compile time
by specifying the command line option <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--with-vte-module-path</span></tt> to
./configure.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="defining-own-widget-styles-using-gtkrc-2-0">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id35">Defining own widget styles using .gtkrc-2.0</a></h3>
<p>You can define your widget style for many of Geany's GUI parts. To
do this, just edit your <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.gtkrc-2.0</span></tt> (usually found in your home
directory on UNIX-like systems and in the etc subdirectory of your
Geany installation on Windows).</p>
<p>To get a defined style get noticed by Geany you must it assign to
one of Geany's widgets. To do so, use the following line:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
widget &quot;Geany*&quot; style &quot;geanyStyle&quot;
</pre>
<p>This would assign your already defined style &quot;geany_style&quot; to all Geany
widgets. You can also assign styles only to specific widgets. At the
moment you can use the following widgets:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>GeanyMainWindow</li>
<li>GeanyEditMenu</li>
<li>GeanyToolbarMenu</li>
<li>GeanyDialog</li>
<li>GeanyDialogPrefs</li>
<li>GeanyDialogProject</li>
<li>GeanyDialogSearch</li>
<li>GeanyMenubar</li>
<li>GeanyToolbar</li>
</ul>
<p>Example of a simple <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.gtkrc-2.0</span></tt>:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
style &quot;geanyStyle&quot;
{
    font_name=&quot;Sans 12&quot;
}
widget &quot;GeanyMainWindow&quot; style &quot;geanyStyle&quot;

style &quot;geanyStyle&quot;
{
    font_name=&quot;Sans 10&quot;
}
widget &quot;GeanyPrefsDialog&quot; style &quot;geanyStyle&quot;
</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="documents">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id36">Documents</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="switching-between-documents">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id37">Switching between documents</a></h3>
<p>The documents list and the editor tabs are two different ways
to switch between documents using the mouse. When you hit the key
combination to move between tabs, the order is determined by the tab
order, not alphabetical as shown in the documents list (regardless
of whether or not editor tabs are visible).</p>
<p>See the <em>Notebook tabs</em> group in the <a class="reference internal" href="#keybindings">Keybindings</a> section for useful
shortcuts including for Most-Recently-Used document switching.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="character-sets-and-unicode-byte-order-mark-bom">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id38">Character sets and Unicode Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="using-character-sets">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id39">Using character sets</a></h3>
<p>Geany provides support for detecting and converting character sets. So
you can open and save files in different character sets and even
can convert a file from a character set to another one. To do this,
Geany uses the character conversion capabilities of the GLib.</p>
<p>Only text files are supported, i.e. opening files which contain
NULL-bytes may fail. Geany will try to open the file anyway but it is
likely that the file will be truncated because it can only opened up
to the first occurrence of a NULL-byte. All characters after this
position are lost and are not written when you save the file.</p>
<p>Geany tries to detect the encoding of a file while opening it. It
might be that the encoding of a file cannot be detected correctly so
you have to set manually the encoding of the file in order to display
it correctly. You can this in the file open dialog by selecting
an encoding in the drop down box or by reloading the file with the
file menu item &quot;Reload as&quot;. The auto-detection works well for most
encodings but there are also some encodings known where auto-detection
has its problems. Auto-detecting the encoding of a file is not easy
and sometimes an encoding might be detected not correctly.</p>
<p>There are different ways to use different encodings in Geany:</p>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Using the file open dialog</p>
<p>This opens the file with the encoding specified in the encoding drop
down box. If the encoding is set to &quot;Detect from file&quot; auto-detection
will be used. If the encoding is set to &quot;Without encoding (None)&quot; the
file will be opened without any character conversion and Geany will
not try to auto-detect the encoding (see below for more information).</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Using the &quot;Reload as&quot; menu item</p>
<p>This item reloads the current file with the specified encoding. It can
help if you opened a file and found out that a wrong encoding was used.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Using the &quot;Set encoding&quot; menu item</p>
<p>In contrary to the above two options, this will not change or reload
the current file unless you save it. It is useful when you want to
change the encoding of the file.</p>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Specifying the encoding in the file itself</p>
<p>As mentioned above, auto-detecting the encoding of a file may fail on
some encodings. If you know that Geany doesn't open a certain file,
you can add a special line to the beginning of the file to force an
encoding when opening the file (for details see below).</p>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="in-file-encoding-specification">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id40">In-file encoding specification</a></h3>
<p>Geany detects meta tags of HTML files which contain charset information
like:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
&lt;meta http-equiv=&quot;content-type&quot; content=&quot;text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15&quot; /&gt;
</pre>
<p>and the found charset is used when opening the file. This is useful if the
encoding of the file cannot be detected properly.
For non-HTML files you can also define a line like:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
/* geany_encoding=ISO-8859-15 */
</pre>
<p>or:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
# geany_encoding=ISO-8859-15 #
</pre>
<p>to force an encoding to be used. The used #, /* and */ are only examples
for filetype-specific comment characters. It doesn't matter which
characters are around the string &quot; geany_encoding=ISO-8859-15 &quot; as long
as there is at least one whitespace character before and after this
string. Whitespace characters are in this case a space or tab character.
An example to use this could be you have a file with ISO-8859-15
encoding but Geany constantly detects the file encoding as ISO-8859-1.
Then you simply add such a line to the file and Geany will open it
correctly the next time.</p>
<p>Since Geany 0.15 you can also use lines like:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
# encoding = ISO-8859-15
</pre>
<p>or:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
# coding: ISO-8859-15
</pre>
<p>The used regular expression to find the encoding string is:
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">coding[\t</span> <span class="pre">]*[:=][\t</span> <span class="pre">]*([a-z0-9-]+)[\t</span> ]*</tt></p>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">These specifications must be in the first 512 bytes of the file.
Anything after the first 512 bytes will not be recognized.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="special-encoding-none">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id41">Special encoding &quot;None&quot;</a></h3>
<p>There is a special encoding &quot;None&quot; which is actually no real
encoding. It is useful when you know that Geany cannot auto-detect
the encoding of a file and it is not displayed correctly. Especially
when the file contains NULL-bytes this can be useful to skip auto
detection and open the file properly at least until the occurrence
of the first NULL-byte. Using this encoding opens the file as it is
without any character conversion.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="unicode-byte-order-mark-bom">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id42">Unicode Byte-Order-Mark (BOM)</a></h3>
<p>Furthermore, Geany detects an Unicode Byte Order Mark (see
<a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark</a> for details). Of course,
this feature is only available if the opened file is in an Unicode
encoding. The Byte Order Mark helps to detect the encoding of a file,
e.g. whether it is UTF-16LE or UTF-16BE and so on. On Unix-like systems
using a Byte Order Mark could cause some problems, e.g. the gcc stops
with stray errors, PHP does not parse a script containing a BOM and
script files starting with a she-bang maybe cannot be started. In the
status bar you can easily see whether the file starts with a BOM or
not. If you want to set a BOM for a file or if you want to remove it
from a file, just use the document menu and toggle the checkbox.</p>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">If you are unsure what a BOM is or if you do not understand where
to use it, then it is probably not important for you and you can
safely ignore it.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="editing">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id43">Editing</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="folding">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id44">Folding</a></h3>
<p>Geany provides basic code folding support. Folding means the ability to
show and hide parts of the text in the current file. You can hide
unimportant code sections and concentrate on the parts you are working on
and later you can show these sections again. In the editor window there is
a small grey margin on the left side with some [+] and [-] symbols. By
clicking on these icons you can simply show and hide sections which are
marked by vertical lines within this margin. For many filetypes nested
folding is supported, so there may be several fold points within other
fold points.</p>
<p>If you don't like it or don't need it at all, you can simply disable
folding support completely in the preferences dialog.</p>
<p>The folding behaviour can be changed with the &quot;Fold/Unfold all children of
a fold point&quot; option in the preference dialog. If activated, Geany will
unfold all nested fold points below the current one if they are already
folded (when clicking on a [+] symbol).
When clicking on a [-] symbol, Geany will fold all nested fold points
below the current one if they are unfolded.</p>
<p>The usage of this option can be instantly inverted by pressing the Shift
key while clicking on a fold symbol. That means, if the &quot;Fold/Unfold all
children of a fold point&quot; option is enabled, pressing Shift will disable
it for this click and vice versa.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="column-mode-editing-rectangular-selections">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id45">Column mode editing (rectangular selections)</a></h3>
<p>There is basic support for column mode editing. To use it, create a
rectangular selection by holding down the Control and Shift keys
(or Control and Alt if it doesn't work) while
selecting some text. It is also possible to create a zero-column selection
but be careful because there is no visual indication of this selection.
Once a rectangular selection exists you can start editing the text within
this selection and the modifications will be done for every line in the
selection.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="drag-and-drop-of-text">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id46">Drag and drop of text</a></h3>
<p>If you drag selected text in the editor widget of Geany the text is
moved to the position where the mouse pointer is when releasing the
mouse button. Holding Control when releasing the mouse button will
copy the text instead. This behaviour was changed in Geany 0.11 -
before the selected text was copied to the new position.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="indentation">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id47">Indentation</a></h3>
<p>Geany allows each document to indent either with a tab character or
multiple spaces. The default indent mode is set in the <a class="reference internal" href="#editor-features-preferences">Editor Features
preferences</a> (see the link for more information). But
this can be overridden using either the <em>Document-&gt;Indent Type</em> menu,
or by using the <em>Detect from file</em> indentation preference. When enabled,
this scans each file that is opened and sets the indent mode based on
how many lines start with a tab vs. 2 or more spaces.</p>
<p>The indent mode for the current document is shown on the status bar
as follows:</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>TAB</dt>
<dd>Indent with Tab characters.</dd>
<dt>SP</dt>
<dd>Indent with spaces.</dd>
<dt>T/S</dt>
<dd>Indent with tabs and spaces, depending on how much indentation is
on a line.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="auto-indentation">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id48">Auto-indentation</a></h3>
<p>When enabled, auto-indentation happens when pressing <em>Enter</em> in the
Editor. It adds a certain amount of indentation to the new line so the
user doesn't always have to indent each line manually.</p>
<p>Geany knows four types of auto-indentation:</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>None</dt>
<dd>Disables auto-indentation completely.</dd>
<dt>Basic</dt>
<dd>Adds the same amount of whitespace on a new line as on the last line.</dd>
<dt>Current chars</dt>
<dd>Does the same as <em>Basic</em> but also indents a new line after an opening
brace '{', and de-indents when typing a closing brace '}'. For Python,
a new line will be indented after typing ':' at the end of the
previous line.</dd>
<dt>Match braces</dt>
<dd>Similar to <em>Current chars</em> but the closing brace will be aligned to
match the indentation of the line with the opening brace.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bookmarks">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id49">Bookmarks</a></h3>
<p>Geany provides a handy bookmarking feature that lets you mark one
or more lines in a document, and return the cursor to them using a
key combination.</p>
<p>To place a mark on a line, either left-mouse-click in the left margin
of the editor window, or else use Ctrl-m. Either way, this will
produce a small green plus symbol in the margin. You can have as many
marks in a document as you like. Click again (or use Ctrl-m again)
to remove the bookmark. To remove all the marks in a given document,
use &quot;Remove Markers&quot; in the Document menu.</p>
<p>To navigate down your document, jumping from one mark to the next,
use Ctrl-. (control period). To go in the opposite direction on
the page, use Ctrl-, (control comma). Using the bookmarking feature
together with the commands to switch from one editor tab to another
(Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn and Ctrl-Tab) provides a particularly fast way to
navigate around multiple files.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="code-navigation-history">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id50">Code navigation history</a></h3>
<p>To ease navigation in source files and especially between
different files, Geany lets you jump between different navigation
points. Currently, this works for the following:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#go-to-tag-declaration">Go to tag declaration</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#go-to-tag-definition">Go to tag definition</a></li>
<li>Symbol list items</li>
<li>Build errors</li>
<li>Message items</li>
</ul>
<p>When using one of these actions, Geany remembers your current position
and jumps to the new one. If you decide to go back to your previous
position in the file, just use &quot;Navigate back a location&quot;. To
get back to the new position again, just use &quot;Navigate forward a
location&quot;. This makes it easier to navigate in e.g.  foreign code
and between different files.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="send-text-through-definable-commands">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id51">Send text through definable commands</a></h3>
<p>You can define several custom commands in Geany and send the current
selection to one of these commands. The output of the command will be
used to replace the current selection. So, it is possible to use text
formatting tools with Geany in a general way. The selected text will
be sent to the standard input of the executed command, so the command
should be able to read from it and it should print all results to its
standard output which will be read by Geany. To help finding errors
in executing the command, the output of the program's standard error
will be printed on Geany's standard output.</p>
<p>To add a custom command, just go to the Set Custom Commands dialog
in the Format sub menu of the Edit and Popup menu. Then click on Add
to get a new text entry and type the command. You can also specify
some command line options. To delete a command, just clear the text
entry and press OK. It will be deleted automatically.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="context-actions">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id52">Context actions</a></h3>
<p>You can execute a specified command on the current word near the
cursor position or an available selection and this word is passed
as an argument to this command. It can be used for example to open
some API documentation in a browser window or open any other external
program. To do this, there is an menu entry in the popup menu of the
editor widget and also a keyboard shortcut(see the section called
<a class="reference internal" href="#keybindings">Keybindings</a>).</p>
<p>The command can be specified in the preferences dialog and additionally
for each filetype (see &quot;context_action_cmd&quot; in the section called
<a class="reference internal" href="#format">Format</a>). At executing, the filetype specific command is used if
available otherwise the command specified in the preferences dialog
is executed.</p>
<p>The passed word can be referred with the wildcard &quot;%s&quot; everywhere
in the command, before executing it will be replaced by the current
word. For example, the command to open the PHP API documentation
would be:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
firefox &quot;http://www.php.net/%s&quot;
</pre>
<p>when executing the command, the %s is substituted by the word near
the cursor position or by the current selection. If the cursor is at
the word &quot;echo&quot;, a browser window will open(assumed your browser is
called firefox) and it will open the address: <a class="reference external" href="http://www.php.net/echo">http://www.php.net/echo</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="autocompletion">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id53">Autocompletion</a></h3>
<p>Geany can offer a list of possible completions for symbols defined in the
tags and for all words in a document.</p>
<p>The autocompletion list for symbols is presented when the first few
characters of the symbol are typed (configurable, see <a class="reference internal" href="#editor-completions-preferences">Editor Completions
preferences</a>, default 4) or when the <em>Complete word</em>
keybinding is pressed (configurable, see <a class="reference internal" href="#configurable-keybindings">Configurable keybindings</a>,
default Ctrl-Space).</p>
<p>When the defined keybinding is typed and the <em>Autocomplete all words in
document</em> preference (in <a class="reference internal" href="#editor-completions-preferences">Editor Completions preferences</a>)
is selected then the autocompletion list will show all matching words
in the document, if there are no matching symbols.</p>
<p>If you don't want to use autocompletion it can be dismissed until
the next symbol by pressing Escape. The autocompletion list is updated
as more characters are typed so that it only shows completions that start
with the characters typed so far. If no symbols begin with the sequence,
the autocompletion window is closed.</p>
<p>The up and down arrows will move the selected item. The highlighted
item on the autocompletion list can be chosen from the list by Tab or
Enter/Return. You can also double-click to select an item. The sequence
will be completed to match the chosen item, and if the <em>Drop rest of
word on completion</em> preference is set (in <a class="reference internal" href="#editor-completions-preferences">Editor Completions
preferences</a>) then any characters after the cursor that match
a symbol or word are deleted.</p>
<div class="section" id="scope-autocompletion">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id54">Scope autocompletion</a></h4>
<p>E.g.:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
struct
{
    int i;
    char c;
} foo;
</pre>
<p>When you type <tt class="docutils literal">foo.</tt> it will show an autocompletion list with 'i' and
'c' symbols.</p>
<p>It only works for languages that set parent scope names for e.g. struct
members. Currently this means C-like languages. The C tag parser only
parses global scopes, so this won't work for structs or objects declared
in local scope.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="user-definable-snippets">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id55">User-definable snippets</a></h3>
<p>Snippets are small strings or code constructs which can be replaced or
completed to a more complex string. So you can save a lot of time by
not typing often used strings and letting Geany do the work for you.
To know what to complete or replace Geany reads a configuration file
called <tt class="docutils literal">snippets.conf</tt> at startup.</p>
<p>The system-wide configuration file can be found in
<tt class="docutils literal">$prefix/share/geany</tt>, where <tt class="docutils literal">$prefix</tt> is the path where Geany is
installed (see <a class="reference internal" href="#installation-prefix">Installation prefix</a>). It is not recommended to edit the
system-wide file, because it will be overridden when Geany is updated.</p>
<p>To change the settings, copy the file from <tt class="docutils literal">$prefix/share/geany</tt>
in your configuration directory (usually <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.config/geany/</span></tt>).</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
% cp /usr/local/share/geany/snippets.conf /home/username/.config/geany/
</pre>
<p>Then you can edit the file and the changes are also available
after an update of Geany because the file resides in your
configuration directory. Alternatively, you can create a file
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.config/geany/snippets.conf</span></tt> and add only these settings you want
to change. All missing settings will be read from the global snippets
file in <tt class="docutils literal">$prefix/share/geany</tt>.</p>
<p>The file <tt class="docutils literal">snippets.conf</tt> may contain several sections for each
filetype. It also contains two additional sections &quot;Default&quot; and
&quot;Special&quot;. Default contains all snippets which are available
for every filetype. You may define another section for a certain
filetype(e.g. C++) containing the same snippets. Then when using
such a snippet in a C++ file the snippet defined in the C++ section will
be used. In any other file the snippet defined in the Default section will
be used unless a section for the current filetype exists and the used
snippet is defined in this section. The section &quot;Special&quot; contains special
snippets which can only be used in other snippets. So you can define often
used parts of snippets and just use the special snippet as a placeholder
(see the <tt class="docutils literal">snippets.conf</tt> for details).</p>
<p>To define snippets you can use several special characters which
will be replaced when using the snippet:</p>
<p><strong>Wildcards for snippets</strong></p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="22%" />
<col width="78%" />
</colgroup>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>\n or %newline%</td>
<td>Insert a new line (it will be replaced by the used EOL
char(s): LF, CR/LF, or CR).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>\t or %ws%</td>
<td>Insert an indentation step, it will be replaced according
to the current document's indent mode.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>\s</td>
<td>\s to force whitespace at beginning or end of a value
('key= value' won't work, use 'key=\svalue')</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>%cursor%</td>
<td>Place the cursor at this position after completion has
been done. You can define multiple %cursor% wildcards
and use the keybinding <tt class="docutils literal">Move cursor in snippet</tt> to jump
to the next defined cursor position in the completed
snippet.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>%...%</td>
<td>&quot;...&quot; means the name of a key in the &quot;Special&quot; section.
If you have defined a key &quot;brace_open&quot; in the &quot;Special&quot;
section you can use %brace_open&quot; in any other snippet.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Snippet names must not contain spaces otherwise they won't
work correctly. But beside that you can define almost any
string as a snippet and use it later in Geany. It is not limited
to existing contructs of certain programming languages(like <tt class="docutils literal">if</tt>,
<tt class="docutils literal">for</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">switch</tt>). Define whatever you need.</p>
<p>Maybe you need to often type your name, so define a snippet like this:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
[Default]
myname=Enrico Tröger
</pre>
<p>Every time you write <tt class="docutils literal">myname</tt> &lt;TAB&gt; in Geany, it will replace &quot;myname&quot;
with &quot;Enrico Tröger&quot;. The key to start autocompletion can be changed
in the preferences dialog, by default it is TAB. The corresponding keybinding
is called <tt class="docutils literal">Complete snippet</tt>.</p>
<p>Since Geany 0.15 you can also use most of the available templates wildcards
listed in <a class="reference internal" href="#template-wildcards">Template wildcards</a>. All wildcards which are listed as
<cite>available in snippets</cite> can be used. For instance to improve the above example:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
[Default]
myname=My name is {developer}
</pre>
<p>this will replace <tt class="docutils literal">myname</tt> with &quot;My name is &quot; and the value of the template
preference <tt class="docutils literal">developer</tt>.</p>
<p>You may change the behaviour Geany recognizes the word to complete,
i.e. where define the start and end of a word. The section &quot;Special&quot; may
contain a key &quot;wordchars&quot; which lists all characters a string may contain
to be recognized as a word for completion. Leave it commented to use
default characters or define it to add or remove characters to fit your
needs.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inserting-unicode-characters">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id56">Inserting Unicode characters</a></h3>
<p>With GTK 2.10 and above, you can insert Unicode code points by hitting
Ctrl-Shift-u, then still holding Ctrl-Shift, type some hex digits representing
the code point for the character you want, then let go of Ctrl-Shift and
hit Enter or Return.</p>
<p>For this to work in Geany, you'll need to first unbind Ctrl-Shift-u
in the <a class="reference internal" href="#keybinding-preferences">keybinding preferences</a>, then restart Geany.
Note that it works slightly differently from other GTK applications,
in that you'll need to continue to hold down the Ctrl and Shift keys
while typing the code point hex digits.</p>
<p>For GTK &lt; 2.10, it is also possible, but typing the first Ctrl-Shift-u
is not necessary. One problem is that you may find the alphabetic
keys conflict with other Geany keybindings.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="search-replace-and-go-to">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id57">Search, replace and go to</a></h2>
<p>This section describes search-related commands from the Search menu
and the editor window's popup menu:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Find</li>
<li>Find usage *</li>
<li>Find in files</li>
<li>Replace</li>
<li>Go to tag definition *</li>
<li>Go to tag declaration *</li>
<li>Go to line</li>
</ul>
<p>* These items are available from the editor window's popup menu, or by
using a keyboard shortcut (see the section called <a class="reference internal" href="#keybindings">Keybindings</a>).</p>
<div class="section" id="find">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id58">Find</a></h3>
<p>The Find dialog is used for finding text in one or more open documents.</p>
<img alt="./images/find_dialog.png" src="./images/find_dialog.png" />
<div class="section" id="matching-options">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id59">Matching options</a></h4>
<p>The syntax for the Use regular expressions option is shown in
<a class="reference internal" href="#regular-expressions">Regular expressions</a>.</p>
<p>The Use escape sequences option will transform any escaped characters
into their UTF-8 equivalent. For example, \t will be transformed into
a tab character. Other recognized symbols are: \\, \n, \r, \uXXXX
(Unicode characters).</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="find-all">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id60">Find all</a></h4>
<p>To find all matches, click on the Find All expander. This will reveal
several options:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>In Document</li>
<li>In Session</li>
<li>Mark</li>
</ul>
<p>Find All In Document will show a list of matching lines in the
current document in the Messages tab of the Message Window. <em>Find All
In Session</em> does the same for all open documents.</p>
<p>Mark will highlight all matches in the current document with a
colored box. These markers can be removed by selecting the
Remove Markers command from the Document menu.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="change-font-in-search-dialog-text-fields">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id61">Change font in search dialog text fields</a></h4>
<p>All search related dialogs use a Monospace for the text input fields to
increase the readability of input text. This is useful when you are
typing e.g. regular expressions with spaces, periods and commas which
might it hard to read with a proportional font.</p>
<p>If you want to change the font for some reason, you can do this easily
by inserting the following style into your <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.gtkrc-2.0</span></tt>
(usually found in your home directory on UNIX-like systems and in the
etc subdirectory of your Geany installation on Windows):</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
style &quot;search_style&quot;
{
    font_name=&quot;Monospace 8&quot;
}
widget &quot;GeanyDialogSearch.*.GtkEntry&quot; style:highest &quot;search_style&quot;
</pre>
<p>Please note the addition &quot;:highest&quot; in the last line which sets the priority
of this style to the highest available. Otherwise, the style is ignored
for the search dialogs.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="find-usage">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id62">Find usage</a></h3>
<p>Find usage searches all open files. It is similar to the Find All In
Session Find dialog command.</p>
<p>If there is a selection, then it is used as the search text; otherwise
the current word is used. The current word is either taken from the
word nearest the edit cursor, or the word underneath the popup menu
click position when the popup menu is used. The search results are
shown in the Messages tab of the Message Window.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="find-in-files">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id63">Find in files</a></h3>
<p>Find in files is a more powerful version of Find usage that searches
all files in a certain directory using the Grep tool. The Grep tool
must be correctly set in Preferences to the path of the system's Grep
utility. GNU Grep is recommended.</p>
<img alt="./images/find_in_files_dialog.png" src="./images/find_in_files_dialog.png" />
<p>The Encoding combo box can be used to define the encoding of the files
to be searched. The chosen encoding is used to convert the entered search
text into and to convert the search results back to UTF-8.
The Extra options field is used to pass any additional arguments to
the grep tool.</p>
<div class="section" id="filtering-out-version-control-files">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id64">Filtering out version control files</a></h4>
<p>When using the <em>Recurse in subfolders</em> option with a directory that's
under version control, you can set the <em>Extra options</em> field to use
grep's <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--exclude</span></tt> flag to filter out filenames.</p>
<p>SVN Example: <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--exclude=*.svn-base</span></tt></p>
<p>The --exclude argument only matches the file name part, not the path. If
you have GNU Grep &gt;= 2.5.2 you can use the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--exclude-dir</span></tt> argument to
filter out CVS and hidden directories like <tt class="docutils literal">.svn</tt>.</p>
<p>Example: <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--exclude-dir=.*</span> <span class="pre">--exclude-dir=CVS</span></tt></p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="replace">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id65">Replace</a></h3>
<p>The Replace dialog is used for replacing text in one or more open
documents.</p>
<img alt="./images/replace_dialog.png" src="./images/replace_dialog.png" />
<p>The Replace dialog has the same options for matching text as the Find
dialog. See the section called <a class="reference internal" href="#matching-options">Matching options</a>.</p>
<p>The <em>Use regular expressions</em> option applies both to the search string
and to the replacement text; for the latter back references can be
used -- see the entry for '\n' in <a class="reference internal" href="#regular-expressions">Regular expressions</a>.</p>
<div class="section" id="replace-all">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id66">Replace all</a></h4>
<p>To replace several matches, click on the <em>Replace All</em> expander. This
will reveal several options:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>In Document</li>
<li>In Session</li>
<li>In Selection</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Replace All In Document</em> will replace all matching text in the
current document. <em>Replace All In Session</em> does the same for all open
documents. <em>Replace All In Selection</em> will replace all matching text
in the current selection of the current document.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="go-to-tag-definition">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id67">Go to tag definition</a></h3>
<p>If the current word is the name of a tag definition (like a function
body) and the file containing the tag definition is open, this command
will switch to that file and go to the corresponding line number. The
current word is either taken from the word nearest the edit cursor,
or the word underneath the popup menu click position when the popup
menu is used.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="go-to-tag-declaration">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id68">Go to tag declaration</a></h3>
<p>Like Go to tag definition, but for a forward declaration such as a
function prototype or <tt class="docutils literal">extern</tt> declaration instead of a function
body.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="go-to-line">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id69">Go to line</a></h3>
<p>Go to a particular line number in the current file.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="regular-expressions">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id70">Regular expressions</a></h3>
<p>You can use regular expressions in the Find and Replace dialogs
by selecting the Use regular expressions check box. The syntax is
POSIX-like, as described in the table below.</p>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<ol class="last arabic simple">
<li>Searching backwards with regular expressions is not supported.</li>
<li>\r and \n are never matched because regular expression
searches are made line per line (stripped of end-of-line chars).</li>
<li>The POSIX '?' regular expression character for optional
matching is not supported.</li>
</ol>
</div>
<p><strong>In a regular expression, the following characters are interpreted:</strong></p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="8%" />
<col width="92%" />
</colgroup>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>.</td>
<td>Matches any character.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>(</td>
<td>This marks the start of a region for tagging a match.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>)</td>
<td>This marks the end of a tagged region.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>\n</td>
<td>Where n is 1 through 9 refers to the first through ninth tagged
region when replacing. For example, if the search string was
Fred([1-9])XXX and the replace string was Sam\1YYY, when applied
to Fred2XXX this would generate Sam2YYY.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>\&lt;</td>
<td>This matches the start of a word.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>\&gt;</td>
<td>This matches the end of a word.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>\c</td>
<td><p class="first">A backslash followed by d, D, s, S, w or W, becomes a
character class (both inside and outside sets []).</p>
<ul class="last simple">
<li>d: decimal digits</li>
<li>D: any char except decimal digits</li>
<li>s: whitespace (space, \t \n \r \f \v)</li>
<li>S: any char except whitespace (see above)</li>
<li>w: alphanumeric &amp; underscore (changed by user setting)</li>
<li>W: any char except alphanumeric &amp; underscore (see above)</li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>\x</td>
<td>This allows you to use a character x that would otherwise have
a special meaning. For example, \[ would be interpreted as [
and not as the start of a character set. Use \\ for a literal
backslash.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>\xHH</td>
<td>A backslash followed by x and two hexa digits, becomes the
character whose Ascii code is equal to these digits. If not
followed by two digits, it is 'x' char itself.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>[...]</td>
<td><p class="first">Matches one of the characters in the set. If the first
character in the set is ^, it matches the characters NOT in
the set, i.e. complements the set. A shorthand S-E (start
dash end) is used to specify a set of characters S up to E,
inclusive. The special characters ] and - have no special
meaning if they appear as the first chars in the set. To
include both, put - first: [-]A-Z] (or just backslash them).</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<pre class="last literal-block">
[-]|]    matches these 3 chars
[]-|]    matches from ] to | chars
[a-z]    any lowercase alpha
[^-]]    any char except - and ]
[^A-Z]   any char except uppercase alpha
[a-zA-Z] any alpha
</pre>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>^</td>
<td>This matches the start of a line (unless used inside a set, see
above).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>$</td>
<td>This matches the end of a line.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>*</td>
<td>This matches 0 or more times. For example, Sa*m matches Sm, Sam,
Saam, Saaam and so on.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>+</td>
<td>This matches 1 or more times. For example, Sa+m matches Sam,
Saam, Saaam and so on.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">This table is adapted from Scintilla and SciTE documentation,
distributed under the <a class="reference internal" href="#license-for-scintilla-and-scite">License for Scintilla and SciTE</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="tags">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id71">Tags</a></h2>
<p>Geany has built-in functionality for generating tag information (aka
&quot;workspace tags&quot;) for supported filetypes when you open a file.  You
can also have Geany automatically load external tag files (aka &quot;global
tags files&quot;) upon startup, or manually using <em>Tools --&gt; Load Tags</em>.</p>
<p>Geany uses its own tag file format, similar to what <tt class="docutils literal">ctags</tt> uses
(but is incompatible with ctags). You use Geany to generate global
tags files, as described below.</p>
<div class="section" id="workspace-tags">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id72">Workspace tags</a></h3>
<p>Tags for each document are parsed whenever a file is loaded or
saved. These are shown in the Symbol list in the Sidebar. These tags
are also used for autocompletion of symbols and calltips for all documents
open in the current session that have the same filetype.</p>
<p>The <em>Go to Tag</em> commands can be used with all workspace tags. See
<a class="reference internal" href="#go-to-tag-definition">Go to tag definition</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="global-tags">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id73">Global tags</a></h3>
<p>Global tags are used to provide autocompletion of symbols and calltips
without having to open the corresponding source files. This is intended
for library APIs, as the tags file only has to be updated when you upgrade
the library.</p>
<p>You can load a custom global tags file in two ways:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Using the <em>Load Tags</em> command in the Tools menu.</li>
<li>By creating a directory <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.config/geany/tags</span></tt>, and moving or symlinking
the tags files there before starting Geany.</li>
<li>By creating a directory <tt class="docutils literal">$prefix/share/geany/tags</tt>, and moving
or symlinking the tags files there before starting Geany.
<tt class="docutils literal">$prefix</tt> is the installation prefix (see <a class="reference internal" href="#installation-prefix">Installation prefix</a>).</li>
</ul>
<p>You can either download these files or generate your own. They have
the format:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
name.lang_ext.tags
</pre>
<p><em>lang_ext</em> is one of the extensions set for the filetype associated
with the tags. See the section called <a class="reference internal" href="#filetype-extensions">Filetype extensions</a> for
more information.</p>
<div class="section" id="default-global-tags-files">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id74">Default global tags files</a></h4>
<p>For some languages, a list of global tags is loaded when the
corresponding filetype is first used. Currently these are for:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>C -- GTK+ and GLib</li>
<li>Pascal</li>
<li>PHP</li>
<li>HTML -- &amp;symbol; completion, e.g. for ampersand, copyright, etc.</li>
<li>LaTeX</li>
<li>Python</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="global-tags-file-format">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id75">Global tags file format</a></h4>
<p>Global tags files can have two different formats:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Tagmanager format</li>
<li>Pipe-separated format</li>
</ul>
<p>The first line of global tags files should be a comment, introduced
by <tt class="docutils literal">#</tt> followed by a space and a string like <tt class="docutils literal">format=pipe</tt>
respectively <tt class="docutils literal">format=tagmanager</tt> (case-sensitive).
This helps Geany to read the file properly. If this line
is missing, Geany tries to auto-detect the used format but this
might fail.</p>
<p>The Tagmanager format is a bit more complex and is used for files
created by the <tt class="docutils literal">geany <span class="pre">-g</span></tt> command. There is one tag per line.
Different tag attributes like the return value or the argument list
are separated with different characters indicating the type of the
following argument.</p>
<p>The Pipe-separated format is easier to read and write.
There is one tag per line and different tag attributes are separated
by the pipe character (<tt class="docutils literal">|</tt>). A line looks like:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
basename|string|(string path [, string suffix])|
</pre>
<div class="line-block">
<div class="line">The first field is the tag name (usually a function name).</div>
<div class="line">The second field is the type of the return value.</div>
<div class="line">The third field is the argument list for this tag.</div>
<div class="line">The fourth field is the description for this tag but
currently unused and should be left empty.</div>
</div>
<p>Except for the first field (tag name), all other field can be left
empty but the pipe separator must appear for them.</p>
<p>You can easily write your own global tag files using this format.
Just save them in your tags directory, as described earlier in the
section <a class="reference internal" href="#global-tags">Global tags</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="generating-a-global-tags-file">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id76">Generating a global tags file</a></h4>
<p>You can generate your own global tags files by parsing a list of
source files. The command is:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
geany -g [-P] &lt;Tag File&gt; &lt;File list&gt;
</pre>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Tag File filename should be in the format described earlier --
see the section called <a class="reference internal" href="#global-tags">Global tags</a>.</li>
<li>File list is a list of filenames, each with a full path (unless
you are generating C/C++ tags and have set the CFLAGS environment
variable appropriately).</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-P</span></tt> or <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--no-preprocessing</span></tt> disables using the C pre-processor
to process <tt class="docutils literal">#include</tt> directives for C/C++ source files. Use this
option if you want to specify each source file on the command-line
instead of using a 'master' header file. Also can be useful if you
don't want to specify the CFLAGS environment variable.</li>
</ul>
<p>Example for the wxD library for the D programming language:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
geany -g wxd.d.tags /home/username/wxd/wx/*.d
</pre>
<p><em>Generating C/C++ tag files:</em></p>
<p>For C/C++ tag files, gcc and grep are required, so that header files
can be preprocessed to include any other headers they depend upon.</p>
<p>For C/C++ files, the environment variable CFLAGS should be set with
appropriate <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-I/path</span></tt> include paths. The following example works with
the bash shell, generating tags for the GnomeUI library:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
CFLAGS=`pkg-config --cflags libgnomeui-2.0` geany -g gnomeui.c.tags \
/usr/include/libgnomeui-2.0/gnome.h
</pre>
<p>You can adapt this command to use CFLAGS and header files appropriate
for whichever libraries you want.</p>
<p><em>Replacing the default C/C++ tags file:</em></p>
<p>Geany currently uses a default global tags file c99.tags for
C and C++, commonly installed in /usr/share/geany. This file can
be replaced with one containing tags parsed from a different set
of header files. When Geany is next started, your custom tags file
will be loaded instead of the default c99.tags. You should keep a
copy of the generated tags file because it will get overwritten when
upgrading Geany.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="ignore-tags">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id77">Ignore tags</a></h3>
<p>You can also ignore certain tags if they would lead to wrong parsing of
the code. Simply create a file called &quot;ignore.tags&quot; in your Geany
configuration directory (usually <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.config/geany/</span></tt>). Then list all tags
you want to ignore in this file, separated by spaces and/or newlines.</p>
<p>More detailed information about the usage from the Exuberant Ctags
manual page:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
Specifies a list of identifiers which are to be specially handled
while  parsing C and C++ source files. This option is specifically
provided to handle special cases arising through the use of
pre-processor macros. When the identifiers listed are simple identifiers,
these identifiers will be ignored during parsing of the source files.
If an identifier is suffixed with a '+' character, ctags will also
ignore any parenthesis-enclosed argument list which may immediately
follow the identifier in the source files.
If two identifiers are separated with the '=' character, the first
identifiers is replaced by the second identifiers for parsing purposes.
</pre>
<p>For even more detailed information please read the manual page of
Exuberant Ctags.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="preferences">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id78">Preferences</a></h2>
<p>You may adjust Geany's settings using the Edit --&gt; Preferences
dialog. Any changes you make there can be applied by hitting either
the Apply or the OK button. These settings will persist between Geany
sessions. Note that most settings here have descriptive popup bubble
help -- just hover the mouse over the item in question to get help
on it.</p>
<p>You may also adjust some View settings (under the View menu) that
persist between Geany sessions. The settings under the Document menu,
however, are only for the current document and revert to defaults
when restarting Geany.</p>
<p>There are also some rarer <a class="reference internal" href="#hidden-preferences">Hidden preferences</a>.</p>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">In the paragraphs that follow, the text describing a dialog tab
comes after the screenshot of that tab.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="general-startup-preferences">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id79">General Startup preferences</a></h3>
<img alt="./images/pref_dialog_gen_startup.png" src="./images/pref_dialog_gen_startup.png" />
<div class="section" id="id1">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id80">Startup</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Load files from the last session</dt>
<dd>On startup, load the same files you had open the last time you
used Geany.</dd>
<dt>Load virtual terminal support</dt>
<dd>Load the library for running a terminal in the message window area.</dd>
<dt>Enable plugin support</dt>
<dd>Allow plugins to be used in Geany.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="shutdown">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id81">Shutdown</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Save window position and geometry</dt>
<dd>Save the current position and size of the main window so next time
you open Geany it's in the same location.</dd>
<dt>Confirm Exit</dt>
<dd>Have a dialog pop up to confirm that you really want to quit Geany.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="paths">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id82">Paths</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Startup path</dt>
<dd>Path to start in when opening or saving files.
It must be an absolute path.
Leave it blank to use the current working directory.</dd>
<dt>Project files</dt>
<dd>Path to start in when opening project files.</dd>
<dt>Extra plugin path</dt>
<dd>Geany looks by default in the global installation path and in the
configuration directory. The path entered here will be searched additionally
for plugins. Usually you do not need to set an additional path to search for
plugins. It might be useful when Geany is installed on a multi-user machine
and additional plugins should be available in a custom location for all users.
Leave blank to not set an additional lookup path.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="general-miscellaneous-preferences">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id83">General Miscellaneous preferences</a></h3>
<img alt="./images/pref_dialog_gen_misc.png" src="./images/pref_dialog_gen_misc.png" />
<div class="section" id="miscellaneous">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id84">Miscellaneous</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Beep on errors when compilation has finished</dt>
<dd>Have the computer make a beeping sound when compilation of your program
has completed or any errors occurred.</dd>
<dt>Switch status message list at new message</dt>
<dd>Switch to the status message tab (in the notebook window at the bottom)
once a new status message arrives.</dd>
<dt>Suppress status messages in the status bar</dt>
<dd>Remove all messages from the status bar. The messages are still displayed
in the status messages window.</dd>
<dt>Auto-focus widgets (focus follows mouse)</dt>
<dd>Give the focus automatically to widgets below the mouse cursor.
This works for the main editor widget, the scribble, the toolbar search field
goto line fields and the VTE.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="search">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id85">Search</a></h3>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Always wrap search and hide the Find dialog</dt>
<dd>Always wrap search around the document and hide the Find dialog after clicking
Find Next/Previous.</dd>
<dt>Use the current word under the cursor for Find dialogs</dt>
<dd>Use current word under the cursor when opening the Find, Find in Files or Replace dialog and
there is no selection. When this option is disabled, the search term of the last use of the
appropriate Find dialog is used.</dd>
<dt>Use the current file's directory for Find in Files</dt>
<dd>When opening the Find in Files dialog, set the directory to search to the directory of the current
active file. When this option is disabled, the directory of the last use of the Find in Files
dialog is used.</dd>
</dl>
<div class="section" id="projects">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id86">Projects</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Use project-based session files</dt>
<dd>Save your current session when closing projects. You will be able to
resume different project sessions, automatically opening the files
you had open previously.</dd>
<dt>Store project file inside the project base directory</dt>
<dd>When creating new projects, the default path for the project file contains
the project base path. Without this option enabled, the default project file
path is one level above the project base path.
In any case, you can easily set the final project file path in the
<em>New Project</em> dialog. This option is just for your convenience to get
a proper default path.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="interface-preferences">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id87">Interface preferences</a></h3>
<img alt="./images/pref_dialog_interface.png" src="./images/pref_dialog_interface.png" />
<div class="section" id="sidebar">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id88">Sidebar</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Show symbol list</dt>
<dd>Show the list of functions, variables, and other information in the
current document you are editing.</dd>
<dt>Show documents list</dt>
<dd>Show all the documents you have open currently. This can be used to
change between documents (see <a class="reference internal" href="#switching-between-documents">Switching between documents</a>) and
to perform some common operations such as saving, closing and reloading.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="fonts">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id89">Fonts</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Editor</dt>
<dd>Change the font used to display documents.</dd>
<dt>Symbol list</dt>
<dd>Change the font used for the Symbols sidebar tab.</dd>
<dt>Message window</dt>
<dd>Change the font used for the message window area.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="editor-tabs">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id90">Editor tabs</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Show editor tabs</dt>
<dd>Show a notebook tab for all documents so you can switch between them
using the mouse (instead of using the Documents window).</dd>
<dt>Show close buttons</dt>
<dd>Make each tab show a close button so you can easily close open
documents.</dd>
<dt>Placement of new file tabs</dt>
<dd>Whether to create a document with its notebook tab to the left or
right of all existing tabs.</dd>
<dt>Double-clicking hides all additional widgets</dt>
<dd>Whether to call the View-&gt;Toggle All Additional Widgets command
when double-clicking on a notebook tab.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="tab-positions">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id91">Tab positions</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Editor</dt>
<dd>Set the positioning of the editor's notebook tabs to the right,
left, top, or bottom of the editing window.</dd>
<dt>Sidebar</dt>
<dd>Set the positioning of the sidebar's notebook tabs to the right,
left, top, or bottom of the sidebar window.</dd>
<dt>Message window</dt>
<dd>Set the positioning of the message window's notebook tabs to the
right, left, top, or bottom of the message window.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id2">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id92">Miscellaneous</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Show status bar</dt>
<dd>Show the status bar at the bottom of the main window. It gives information about
the file you are editing like the line and column you are on, whether any
modifications were done, the file encoding, the filetype and other information.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="toolbar-preferences">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id93">Toolbar preferences</a></h3>
<p>Affects the main toolbar underneath the menu bar.</p>
<img alt="./images/pref_dialog_toolbar.png" src="./images/pref_dialog_toolbar.png" />
<div class="section" id="toolbar">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id94">Toolbar</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Show Toolbar</dt>
<dd>Whether to show the toolbar.</dd>
<dt>Append Toolbar to the Menu</dt>
<dd>Allows to append the toolbar to the main menu bar instead of placing it below.
This is useful to save vertical space.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="appearance">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id95">Appearance</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Icon Style</dt>
<dd>Select the toolbar icon style to use - either icons and text, just
icons or just text.</dd>
<dt>Icon size</dt>
<dd>Select the size of the icons you see (large, small or very small).</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="editor-features-preferences">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id96">Editor Features preferences</a></h3>
<img alt="./images/pref_dialog_edit_features.png" src="./images/pref_dialog_edit_features.png" />
<div class="section" id="features">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id97">Features</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Line wrapping</dt>
<dd>Show long lines wrapped around to new display lines.</dd>
<dt>Enable &quot;smart&quot; home key</dt>
<dd>Whether to move the cursor to the first non-whitespace character
on the line when you hit the home key on your keyboard. Pressing it
again will go to the very start of the line.</dd>
<dt>Disable Drag and Drop</dt>
<dd>Do not allow the dragging and dropping of selected text in documents.</dd>
<dt>Enable folding</dt>
<dd>Allow groups of lines in a document to be collapsed for easier
navigation/editing.</dd>
<dt>Fold/Unfold all children of a fold point</dt>
<dd>Whether to fold/unfold all child fold points when a parent line
is folded.</dd>
<dt>Use indicators to show compile errors</dt>
<dd>Underline lines with compile errors using red squiggles to indicate
them in the editor area.</dd>
<dt>Newline strip trailing spaces</dt>
<dd>Remove any white space at the end of the line when you hit the
Enter/Return key.</dd>
<dt>Line breaking column</dt>
<dd>The editor column number to insert a newline at when Line Breaking
is enabled for the current document.</dd>
<dt>Comment toggle marker</dt>
<dd>A string which is added when toggling a line comment in a source file.
It is used to mark the comment as toggled.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="editor-indentation-preferences">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id98">Editor Indentation preferences</a></h3>
<img alt="./images/pref_dialog_edit_indentation.png" src="./images/pref_dialog_edit_indentation.png" />
<div class="section" id="indentation-group">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id99">Indentation group</a></h4>
<p>See <a class="reference internal" href="#indentation">Indentation</a> for more information.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Type</dt>
<dd><p class="first">When Geany inserts indentation, whether to use:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Just Tabs</li>
<li>Just Spaces</li>
<li>Tabs and Spaces, depending on how much indentation is on a line</li>
</ul>
<p class="last">The <em>Tabs and Spaces</em> indent type is also known as <em>Soft tab
support</em> in some other editors.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Width</dt>
<dd>The width of a single indent size in spaces. By default the indent
size is equivalent to 4 spaces.</dd>
<dt>Hard tab width</dt>
<dd>When the <em>Tabs and Spaces</em> indent type is enabled, this is the
display size of a tab. Otherwise this is ignored. Although
configurable, this should usually be set to 8.</dd>
<dt>Detect from file</dt>
<dd>Try to detect and set the indent type based on file content, when
a file is opened.</dd>
<dt>Auto-indent mode</dt>
<dd><p class="first">The type of auto-indentation you wish to use after pressing Enter,
if any.</p>
<dl class="last docutils">
<dt>Basic</dt>
<dd>Just add the indentation of the previous line.</dd>
<dt>Current chars</dt>
<dd>Add indentation based on the current filetype and any characters at
the end of the line such as <tt class="docutils literal">{</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">}</tt> for C, <tt class="docutils literal">:</tt> for Python.</dd>
<dt>Match braces</dt>
<dd>Like <em>Current chars</em> but for C-like languages, make a closing
<tt class="docutils literal">}</tt> brace line up with the matching opening brace.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>Tab key indents</dt>
<dd><p class="first">If set, pressing tab will indent the current line or selection, and
unindent when pressing Shift-tab. Otherwise, the tab key will
insert a tab character into the document (which can be different
from indentation, depending on the indent type).</p>
<div class="note last">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">There are also separate configurable keybindings for indent &amp;
unindent, but this pref allows the tab key to have different
meanings in different contexts - e.g. for snippet completion.</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="editor-completions-preferences">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id100">Editor Completions preferences</a></h3>
<img alt="./images/pref_dialog_edit_completions.png" src="./images/pref_dialog_edit_completions.png" />
<div class="section" id="completions">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id101">Completions</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Snippet Completion</dt>
<dd>Whether to replace special keywords after typing Tab into a
pre-defined text snippet.
See <a class="reference internal" href="#user-definable-snippets">User-definable snippets</a>.</dd>
<dt>XML tag autocompletion</dt>
<dd>When you open an XML tag automatically generate its completion tag.</dd>
<dt>Automatic continuation multi-line comments</dt>
<dd><p class="first">Continue automatically multi-line comments in languages like C, C++
and Java when a new line is entered inside such a comment.
With this option enabled, Geany will insert a <tt class="docutils literal">*</tt> on every new line
inside a multi-line comment, for example when you press return in the
following C code:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
/*
 * This is a C multi-line comment, press &lt;Return&gt;
</pre>
<p>then Geany would insert:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
*
</pre>
<p class="last">on the next line with the correct indentation based on the previous line,
as long as the multi-line is not closed by <tt class="docutils literal">*/</tt>.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Autocomplete symbols</dt>
<dd>When you start to type a symbol name, look for the full string to
allow it to be completed for you.</dd>
<dt>Autocomplete all words in document</dt>
<dd>When you start to type a word, Geany will search the whole document for
words starting with the typed part to complete it, assuming there
are no tag names to show.</dd>
<dt>Drop rest of word on completion</dt>
<dd>Remove any word part to the right of the cursor when choosing a
completion list item.</dd>
<dt>Characters to type for autocompletion</dt>
<dd>Number of characters of a word to type before autocompletion is
displayed.</dd>
<dt>Completion list height</dt>
<dd>The number of rows to display for the autocompletion window.</dd>
<dt>Max. symbol name suggestions</dt>
<dd>The maximum number of items in the autocompletion list.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="auto-close-quotes-and-brackets">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id102">Auto-close quotes and brackets</a></h4>
<p>Geany can automatically insert a closing bracket and quote characters when
you open them. For instance, you type a <tt class="docutils literal">(</tt> and Geany will automatically
insert <tt class="docutils literal">)</tt>. With the following options, you can define for which
characters this should work.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Parenthesis ( )</dt>
<dd>Auto-close parenthesis when typing an opening one</dd>
<dt>Curly brackets { }</dt>
<dd>Auto-close parenthesis when typing an opening one</dd>
<dt>Square brackets [ ]</dt>
<dd>Auto-close parenthesis when typing an opening one</dd>
<dt>Single quotes ' '</dt>
<dd>Auto-close parenthesis when typing an opening one</dd>
<dt>Double quotes &quot; &quot;</dt>
<dd>Auto-close parenthesis when typing an opening one</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="editor-display-preferences">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id103">Editor Display preferences</a></h3>
<p>This is for visual elements displayed in the editor window.</p>
<img alt="./images/pref_dialog_edit_display.png" src="./images/pref_dialog_edit_display.png" />
<div class="section" id="display">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id104">Display</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Invert syntax highlighting colors</dt>
<dd>Invert all colors, by default this makes white text on a black
background.</dd>
<dt>Show indendation guides</dt>
<dd>Show vertical lines to help show how much leading indentation there
is on each line.</dd>
<dt>Show whitespaces</dt>
<dd>Mark all tabs with an arrow &quot;--&gt;&quot; symbol and spaces with dots to
show which kinds of whitespace are used.</dd>
<dt>Show line endings</dt>
<dd>Display a symbol everywhere that a carriage return or line feed
is present.</dd>
<dt>Show line numbers</dt>
<dd>Show or hide the Line Number margin.</dd>
<dt>Show markers margin</dt>
<dd>Show or hide the small margin right of the line numbers, which is used
to mark lines.</dd>
<dt>Stop scrolling at last line</dt>
<dd>When enabled Geany stops scrolling when at the last line of the document.
Otherwise you can scroll one more page even if there are no real lines.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="long-line-marker">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id105">Long line marker</a></h4>
<p>The long line marker helps to indicate overly-long lines, or as a hint
to the user for when to break the line.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Type</dt>
<dd><dl class="first last docutils">
<dt>Line</dt>
<dd>Show a thin vertical line in the editor window at the given column
position.</dd>
<dt>Background</dt>
<dd>Change the background color of characters after the given column
position to the color set below. (This is recommended over the
<em>Line</em> setting if you use proportional fonts).</dd>
<dt>Disabled</dt>
<dd>Don't mark long lines at all.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
<dt>Long line marker</dt>
<dd>Set this value to a value greater than zero to specify the column
where it should appear.</dd>
<dt>Long line marker color</dt>
<dd>Set the color of the long line marker.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="files-preferences">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id106">Files preferences</a></h3>
<img alt="./images/pref_dialog_files.png" src="./images/pref_dialog_files.png" />
<div class="section" id="new-files">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id107">New files</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Open new documents from the command-line</dt>
<dd>Whether to create new documents when passing filenames that don't
exist from the command-line.</dd>
<dt>Default encoding (new files)</dt>
<dd>The type of file encoding you wish to use when creating files.</dd>
<dt>Used fixed encoding when opening files</dt>
<dd>Assume all files you are opening are using the type of encoding specified below.</dd>
<dt>Default encoding (existing files)</dt>
<dd>Opens all files with the specified encoding instead of auto-detecting it.
Use this option when it's not possible for Geany to detect the exact encoding.</dd>
<dt>Default end of line characters</dt>
<dd>The end of line characters to which should be used for new files.
On Windows systems, you generally want to use CR/LF which are the common
characters to mark line breaks.
On Unix-like systems, LF is default and CR is used on MAC systems.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="saving-files">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id108">Saving files</a></h4>
<p>Perform special formatting operations when a document is saved. These
can each be undone with the Undo command as usual.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Ensure newline at file end</dt>
<dd>Add a newline at the end of the document if one is missing.</dd>
<dt>Strip trailing spaces</dt>
<dd>Remove the trailing spaces on each line of the document.</dd>
<dt>Replace tabs by space</dt>
<dd><p class="first">Replace all tabs in the document with the equivalent number of spaces.</p>
<div class="note last">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">It is better to use spaces to indent than use this preference - see
<a class="reference internal" href="#indentation">Indentation</a>.</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id3">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id109">Miscellaneous</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Recent files list length</dt>
<dd>The number of files to remember in the recently used files list.</dd>
<dt>Disk check timeout</dt>
<dd><p class="first">The number of seconds to periodically check the current document's
file on disk in case it has changed. Setting it to 0 will disable
this feature.</p>
<div class="note last">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">These checks are only performed on local files. Remote files are
not checked for changes due to performance issues
(remote files are files in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.gvfs/</span></tt>).</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="tools-preferences">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id110">Tools preferences</a></h3>
<img alt="./images/pref_dialog_tools.png" src="./images/pref_dialog_tools.png" />
<div class="section" id="tool-paths">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id111">Tool paths</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Make</dt>
<dd>The location of the make executable.</dd>
<dt>Terminal</dt>
<dd>The location of your terminal executable.</dd>
<dt>Browser</dt>
<dd>The location of your web browser executable.</dd>
<dt>Grep</dt>
<dd>The location of the grep executable.</dd>
</dl>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">For Windows users: at the time of writing it is recommended to use
the grep.exe from the UnxUtils project
(<a class="reference external" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils">http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils</a>). The grep.exe from the
Mingw project for instance might not work with Geany at the moment.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="commands">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id112">Commands</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Context action</dt>
<dd>Set this to a command to execute on the current word.
You can use the &quot;%s&quot; wildcard to pass the current word below the cursor
to the specified command.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="template-preferences">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id113">Template preferences</a></h3>
<p>This data is used as meta data for various template text to insert into
a document, such as the file header. You only need to set fields that
you want to use in your template files.</p>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">For changes made here to take effect a restart of geany is required.</p>
</div>
<img alt="./images/pref_dialog_templ.png" src="./images/pref_dialog_templ.png" />
<div class="section" id="template-data">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id114">Template data</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Developer</dt>
<dd>The name of the developer who will be creating files.</dd>
<dt>Initials</dt>
<dd>The initials of the developer.</dd>
<dt>Mail address</dt>
<dd><p class="first">The email address of the developer.</p>
<div class="note last">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">You may wish to add anti-spam markup, e.g. <tt class="docutils literal">name&lt;at&gt;site&lt;dot&gt;ext</tt>.</p>
</div>
</dd>
<dt>Company</dt>
<dd>The company the developer is working for.</dd>
<dt>Initial version</dt>
<dd>The initial version of files you will be creating.</dd>
<dt>Year</dt>
<dd>Specify a format for the the {year} wildcard. You can use any conversion specifiers
which can be used with the ANSI C strftime function.  For details please see
<a class="reference external" href="http://man.cx/strftime">http://man.cx/strftime</a>.</dd>
<dt>Date</dt>
<dd>Specify a format for the the {date} wildcard. You can use any conversion specifiers
which can be used with the ANSI C strftime function.  For details please see
<a class="reference external" href="http://man.cx/strftime">http://man.cx/strftime</a>.</dd>
<dt>Date &amp; Time</dt>
<dd>Specify a format for the the {datetime} wildcard. You can use any conversion specifiers
which can be used with the ANSI C strftime function.  For details please see
<a class="reference external" href="http://man.cx/strftime">http://man.cx/strftime</a>.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="keybinding-preferences">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id115">Keybinding preferences</a></h3>
<img alt="./images/pref_dialog_keys.png" src="./images/pref_dialog_keys.png" />
<p>There are some handy commands in here that are not, by default,
bound to a key combination, and may not be available as a menu item.</p>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">For more information see the section called <a class="reference internal" href="#keybindings">Keybindings</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="printing-preferences">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id116">Printing preferences</a></h3>
<img alt="./images/pref_dialog_printing.png" src="./images/pref_dialog_printing.png" />
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Use external command for printing</dt>
<dd>Use a system command to print your file out.</dd>
<dt>Use native GTK printing</dt>
<dd>Let the GTK GUI toolkit handle your print request.</dd>
<dt>Print line numbers</dt>
<dd>Print the line numbers on the left of your paper.</dd>
<dt>Print page number</dt>
<dd>Print the page number on the bottom right of your paper.</dd>
<dt>Print page header</dt>
<dd>Print a header on every page that is sent to the printer.</dd>
<dt>Use base name of the printed file</dt>
<dd>Don't use the entire path for the header, only the filename.</dd>
<dt>Date format</dt>
<dd>How the date should be printed. You can use the same format
specifiers as in the ANSI C function strftime(). For details please
see <a class="reference external" href="http://man.cx/strftime">http://man.cx/strftime</a>.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="terminal-vte-preferences">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id117">Terminal (VTE) preferences</a></h3>
<p>See also: <a class="reference internal" href="#virtual-terminal-emulator-widget-vte">Virtual terminal emulator widget (VTE)</a>.</p>
<img alt="./images/pref_dialog_vte.png" src="./images/pref_dialog_vte.png" />
<div class="section" id="terminal-widget">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id118">Terminal widget</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Terminal font</dt>
<dd>Select the font that will be used in the terminal emulation control.</dd>
<dt>Foreground color</dt>
<dd>Select the font color.</dd>
<dt>Background color</dt>
<dd>Select the background color of the terminal.</dd>
<dt>Scrollback lines</dt>
<dd>The number of lines buffered so that you can scroll though the history.</dd>
<dt>Shell</dt>
<dd>The location of the shell on your system.</dd>
<dt>Scroll on keystroke</dt>
<dd>Scroll the terminal to the prompt line when pressing a key.</dd>
<dt>Scroll on output</dt>
<dd>Scroll the output down.</dd>
<dt>Cursor blinks</dt>
<dd>Let the terminal cursor blink.</dd>
<dt>Override Geany keybindings</dt>
<dd>Allow the VTE to receive keyboard shortcuts (apart from focus commands).</dd>
<dt>Disable menu shortcut key (F10 by default)</dt>
<dd>Disable the menu shortcut when you are in the virtual terminal.</dd>
<dt>Follow path of the current file</dt>
<dd>Make the path of the terminal change according to the path of the
current file.</dd>
<dt>Execute programs in VTE</dt>
<dd>Execute programs in the virtual terminal instead of using the external
terminal tool.</dd>
<dt>Don't use run script</dt>
<dd>Don't use the simple run script which is usually used to display
the exit status of the executed program.
This can be useful if you already have a program running in the VTE
like a Python console (e.g. ipython). Use this with care.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="project-management">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id119">Project Management</a></h2>
<p>Project Management is optional in Geany. Currently it can be used for:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Storing and opening session files on a project basis.</li>
<li>Running <em>Make</em> from the project's base directory.</li>
<li>Setting a custom <em>Run</em> command specific to the project.</li>
</ul>
<p>A list of session files can be stored and opened with the project
when the <em>Use project-based session files</em> preference is enabled,
in the <em>Project</em> group of the <a class="reference internal" href="#preferences">Preferences</a> dialog.</p>
<p>As long as a project is open, the Make and Run commands will use
the project's settings, instead of the defaults. These will be used
whichever document is currently displayed.</p>
<p>The current project's settings are saved when it is closed, or when
Geany is shutdown. When restarting Geany, the previously opened project
file that was in use at the end of the last session will be reopened.</p>
<p>Below are the commands used to create, modify, open and close projects.</p>
<div class="section" id="new-project">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id120">New Project</a></h3>
<p>To create a new project, fill in the <em>Name</em> field. By default this
will setup a new project file <tt class="docutils literal">~/projects/name.geany</tt>. Usually it's
best to store all your project files in the same directory (they are
independent of any source directory trees).</p>
<p>The Base path text field is setup to use <tt class="docutils literal">~/projects/name</tt>. This
can safely be set to any existing path -- it will not touch the file
structure contained in it.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="project-properties">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id121">Project Properties</a></h3>
<p>You can set an optional description for the project, but it is not
used elsewhere by Geany.</p>
<p>The <em>Base path</em> field is used as the directory to run the Make and Make
custom commands in. It is also used as working directory for the project
specific <em>Run command</em>.
The specified path can be an absolute path or relative to the project's
file name.</p>
<div class="section" id="make-in-base-path">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id122">Make in base path</a></h4>
<p>This setting makes the <em>Build-&gt;Make</em> command use the project's base
path. Uncheck this if you want to use the current file's directory
instead.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="run-command">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id123">Run command</a></h4>
<p>The <em>Run command</em> overrides the default run command. You can set this
to the executable or main script file for the project, and append
any command-line arguments.</p>
<p>The following variables can be used:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>%f -- complete filename without path</li>
<li>%e -- filename without path and without extension</li>
</ul>
<p>See <a class="reference internal" href="#build-settings-section">[build_settings] Section</a> for details.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="open-project">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id124">Open Project</a></h3>
<p>The Open command displays a standard file chooser, starting in
<tt class="docutils literal">~/projects</tt>. Choose a project file named with the <tt class="docutils literal">.geany</tt>
extension.</p>
<p>When project session support is enabled, Geany will close the currently
open files and open the session files associated with the project.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="close-project">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id125">Close Project</a></h3>
<p>Project file settings are saved when the project is closed.</p>
<p>When project session support is enabled, Geany will close the project
session files and open any previously closed default session files.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="build-system">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id126">Build system</a></h2>
<p>Geany has an integrated build system. Firstly this means that the
current source file will be saved before it is processed. This is
for convenience so that you don't need to keep saving small changes
to the current file before building.</p>
<p>Secondly the output for Compile, Build and Make actions will be captured
in the Compiler notebook tab of the messages window. If there are
any warnings or errors with line numbers shown in red in the Compiler
output tab, you can click on them and Geany will switch to the relevant
source file (or open it) and mark the line number so the problem can be
corrected. Geany will also set indicators for warnings or errors with
line numbers.</p>
<div class="tip">
<p class="first admonition-title">Tip</p>
<p class="last">If Geany's default error message parsing does not parse errors for
the tool you're using, you can set a custom regex. See <a class="reference internal" href="#filetype-definition-files">Filetype
definition files</a> and the <a class="reference internal" href="#build-settings-section">[build_settings] Section</a>.</p>
</div>
<p>Depending on the current file's filetype, the Build menu will contain
the following items:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Compile</li>
<li>Build</li>
<li>Make All</li>
<li>Make Custom Target</li>
<li>Make Object</li>
<li>Execute</li>
<li>Set Includes and Arguments</li>
</ul>
<div class="section" id="compile">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id127">Compile</a></h3>
<p>The Compile command has different uses for different kinds of files.</p>
<p>For compilable languages such as C and C++, the Compile command is
setup to compile the current source file into a binary object file.</p>
<p>Java source files will be compiled to class file bytecode. Interpreted
languages such as Perl, Python, Ruby will compile to bytecode if the
language supports it, or will run a syntax check, or failing that
will run the file in its language interpreter.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="build">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id128">Build</a></h3>
<p>For compilable languages such as C and C++, the Build command will link
the current source file's equivalent object file into an executable. If
the object file does not exist, the source will be compiled and linked
in one step, producing just the executable binary.</p>
<p>Interpreted languages do not use the Build command.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="make-all">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id129">Make all</a></h3>
<p>This effectively runs &quot;make all&quot; in the same directory as the
current file.</p>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">For each of the Make commands, The Make tool path must be correctly
set in the Tools tab of the Preferences dialog.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="make-custom-target">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id130">Make custom target</a></h3>
<p>This is similar to running 'Make all' but you will be prompted for
the make target name to be passed to the Make tool. For example,
typing 'clean' in the dialog prompt will run &quot;make clean&quot;.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="make-object">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id131">Make object</a></h3>
<p>Make object will run &quot;make current_file.o&quot; in the same directory as
the current file, using its prefix for 'current_file'. It is useful
for compiling just the current file without building the whole project.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="execute">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id132">Execute</a></h3>
<p>Execute will run the corresponding executable file, shell script or
interpreted script in a terminal window. Note that the Terminal tool
path must be correctly set in the Tools tab of the Preferences dialog -
you can use any terminal program that runs a Bourne compatible shell
and accept the &quot;-e&quot; command line argument to start a command.</p>
<p>After your program or script has finished executing, you will be
prompted to press the return key. This allows you to review any text
output from the program before the terminal window is closed.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="stopping-running-processes">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id133">Stopping running processes</a></h3>
<p>When there is a running program, the Run button in the toolbar
becomes a stop button and you can stop the current action. This
works by sending a signal to the process (and its child process(es))
to stop the process. The used signal is SIGQUIT.</p>
<p>Depending on the process you started it might occur that the process
cannot be stopped. This can happen when the process creates more than
one child process.</p>
<div class="section" id="terminal-emulators">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id134">Terminal emulators</a></h4>
<p>Xterm is known to work properly. If you are using &quot;Terminal&quot;
(the terminal program of Xfce), you should add the command line
option <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--disable-server</span></tt> otherwise the started process cannot be
stopped. Just add this option in the preferences dialog on the Tools
tab in the terminal field.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="set-includes-and-arguments">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id135">Set Includes and Arguments</a></h3>
<p>By default the Compile and Build commands invoke the compiler and
linker with only the basic arguments needed by all programs. Using
Set Includes and Arguments you can add any include paths and compile
flags for the compiler, any library names and paths for the linker,
and any arguments you want to use when running Execute.</p>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">If you need complex settings for your build system, or several
different settings, then writing a Makefile and using the Make
commands is recommended; this will also make it easier for users to
build your software.</p>
</div>
<p>These settings are saved automatically when Geany is shut down.</p>
<p>The following variables can be used:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>%f -- complete filename without path</li>
<li>%e -- filename without path and without extension</li>
</ul>
<p>See <a class="reference internal" href="#build-settings-section">[build_settings] Section</a> for details.</p>
<div class="section" id="one-step-compilation">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id136">One step compilation</a></h4>
<p>If you are using the Build command to compile and link in one step,
you will need to set both the compiler arguments and the linker
arguments in the linker command setting.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="indicators">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id137">Indicators</a></h3>
<p>Indicators are red squiggly underlines which are used to highlight
errors which occurred while compiling the current file. So you can
easily see where your code failed to compile. To remove the indicators,
just click on &quot;Remove all indicators&quot; in the document file menu.</p>
<p>If you do not like this feature, you can disable it in the preferences
dialog.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="printing-support">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id138">Printing support</a></h2>
<p>Since Geany 0.13 there is full printing support using GTK's printing API.
The printed page(s) will look nearly the same as on your screen in Geany.
Additionally, there are some options to modify the printed page(s). You
can define whether to print line numbers, page numbers at the bottom of
each page and whether to print a page header on each page. This header
contains the filename of the printed document, the current page number and
the date and time of printing. By default, the file name of the document
is added with full path information to the header. If you prefer to add
only the basename of the file(without any path information) you can set it
in the preferences dialog. You can also adjust the format of the date and
time added to the page header. The available conversion specifiers are the
same as the ones which can be used with the ANSI C strftime function.
All of these settings can also be changed in the print dialog just before
actual printing is done.
On Unix-like systems the provided print dialog offers a print preview. The
preview file is opened with a PDF viewer and by default GTK uses <tt class="docutils literal">evince</tt>
for print preview. If you don't have installed evince or just want to use
another PDF viewer, you can change the program to use in the file
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.gtkrc-2.0</span></tt> (usually found in your home directory). Simply add a line
like:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
gtk-print-preview-command = &quot;epdfview %f&quot;
</pre>
<p>at the end of the file. Of course, you can also use xpdf, kpdf or whatever
as the print preview command.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, native GTK printing support is only available if Geany was
built against GTK 2.10 (or above) <strong>and</strong> is running with GTK 2.10 (or above).
If not, Geany provides basic printing support. This means you can print a
file by passing the filename of the current file to a command which
actually prints the file. However, the printed document contains no syntax
highlighting. You can adjust the command to which the filename is
passed in the preferences dialog. The default command is:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
% lpr %f
</pre>
<p><tt class="docutils literal">%f</tt> will be substituted by the filename of the current file. Geany
will not show errors from the command itself, so you should make
sure that it works before(e.g. by trying to execute it from the
command line).</p>
<p>A nicer example, which I prefer is:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
% a2ps -1 --medium=A4 -o - %f | xfprint4
</pre>
<p>But this depends on a2ps and xfprint4. As a replacement for xfprint4,
gtklp or similar programs can be used.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="plugins">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id139">Plugins</a></h2>
<p>Plugins are loaded at startup, if the <em>Enable plugin support</em>
general preference is set. There is also a command-line option,
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-p</span></tt>, which prevents plugins being loaded. Plugins are scanned in
the following directories:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">$prefix/lib/geany</tt> (see <a class="reference internal" href="#installation-prefix">Installation prefix</a>)</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.config/geany/plugins</span></tt></li>
</ul>
<p>Most plugins add menu items to the <em>Tools</em> menu when they are loaded.</p>
<p>Since Geany 0.13, there is a Plugin Manager to let you choose which plugins
should be loaded at startup. You can also load and unload plugins on the
fly using this dialog. Once you click the checkbox for a specific plugin
in the dialog, it is loaded or unloaded according to its previous state.
By default, no plugins are loaded at startup until you select some.
You can also configure some plugin specific options when the plugin
provides some.</p>
<p>See also <a class="reference internal" href="#plugin-documentation">Plugin documentation</a> for information about single plugins
which are included in Geany.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="keybindings">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id140">Keybindings</a></h2>
<p>Geany supports the default keyboard shortcuts for the Scintilla
editing widget. For a list of these commands, see <a class="reference internal" href="#scintilla-keyboard-commands">Scintilla
keyboard commands</a>. The Scintilla keyboard shortcuts will be overridden
by any custom keybindings with the same keyboard shortcut.</p>
<div class="section" id="switching-documents">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id141">Switching documents</a></h3>
<p>There are a few non-configurable bindings to switch between documents,
listed below. These can also be overridden by custom keybindings.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="31%" />
<col width="69%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Key</th>
<th class="head">Action</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>Alt-[1-9]</td>
<td>Select left-most tab, from 1 to 9.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Alt-0</td>
<td>Select right-most tab.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Ctrl-Shift-PgUp</td>
<td>Select left-most tab.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Ctrl-Shift-PgDn</td>
<td>Select right-most tab.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="section" id="configurable-keybindings">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id142">Configurable keybindings</a></h3>
<p>For all actions listed below you can define your own keybindings. Open
the Preferences dialog, select the desired action and click on
change. In the opening dialog you can press any key combination you
want and it will be saved when you press OK. You can define only one
key combination for one action.</p>
<p>Some of the default key combinations cannot be changed, e.g. menu_new
or menu_open. These are set by GTK and should be kept, but you can
still add other key combinations for these actions. For example to
execute menu_open by default <em>Ctrl-O</em> is set, but you can also define
<em>Alt-O</em>, so that the file open dialog is shown by pressing either
<em>Ctrl-O</em> or <em>Alt-O</em>.</p>
<p>The following table lists all customizable keyboard shortcuts.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="28%" />
<col width="23%" />
<col width="49%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Action</th>
<th class="head">Default shortcut</th>
<th class="head">Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td><strong>File</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>New</td>
<td>Ctrl-N</td>
<td>Creates a new file.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Open</td>
<td>Ctrl-O</td>
<td>Opens a file.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Save</td>
<td>Ctrl-S</td>
<td>Saves the current file.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Save As</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Saves the current file under a new name.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Save all</td>
<td>Ctrl-Shift-S</td>
<td>Saves all open files.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Close all</td>
<td>Ctrl-Shift-W</td>
<td>Closes all open files.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Close</td>
<td>Ctrl-W</td>
<td>Closes the current file.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Reload file</td>
<td>Ctrl-R</td>
<td>Reloads the current file. All unsaved changes
will be lost.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Print</td>
<td>Ctrl-P</td>
<td>Prints the current file.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>Editor</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Undo</td>
<td>Ctrl-Z</td>
<td>Un-does the last action.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Redo</td>
<td>Ctrl-Y</td>
<td>Re-does the last action.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Delete current line(s)</td>
<td>Ctrl-K</td>
<td>Deletes the current line (and any lines with a
selection).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Delete to line end</td>
<td>Ctrl-Shift-Delete</td>
<td>Deletes from the current caret position to the
end of the current line.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Duplicate line or selection</td>
<td>Ctrl-D</td>
<td>Duplicates the current line or selection.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Transpose current line</td>
<td>Ctrl-T</td>
<td>Transposes the current line with the previous one.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Scroll to current line</td>
<td>Ctrl-Shift-L</td>
<td>Scrolls the current line into the centre of the
view. The cursor position and or an existing
selection will not be changed.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Scroll up by one line</td>
<td>Alt-Up</td>
<td>Scrolls the view.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Scroll down by one line</td>
<td>Alt-Down</td>
<td>Scrolls the view.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Complete word</td>
<td>Ctrl-Space</td>
<td>Shows the autocompletion list. If already showing
tag completion, it shows document word completion
instead, even if it is not enabled for automatic
completion. Likewise if no tag suggestions are
available, it shows document word completion.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Show calltip</td>
<td>Ctrl-Shift-Space</td>
<td>Shows call tips for the current function or
method.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Show macro list</td>
<td>Ctrl-Return</td>
<td>Shows a list of available macros and variables in
the workspace.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Complete snippet</td>
<td>Tab</td>
<td>If you type a construct like if or for and press
this key, it will be completed with a matching
template.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Suppress snippet completion</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>If you type a construct like if or for and press
this key, it will not be completed, and a space or
tab will be inserted, depending on what the
construct completion keybinding is set to. For
example, if you have set the construct completion
keybinding to space, then setting this to
Shift+space will prevent construct completion and
insert a space.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Context Action</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Executes a command and passes the current word
(near the cursor position) or selection as an
argument. See the section called <a class="reference internal" href="#context-actions">Context
actions</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Move cursor in snippet</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Jumps to the next defined cursor positions in a
completed snippets if multiple cursor positions
where defined.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>Clipboard</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Cut</td>
<td>Ctrl-X</td>
<td>Cut the current selection to the clipboard.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Copy</td>
<td>Ctrl-C</td>
<td>Copy the current selection to the clipboard.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Paste</td>
<td>Ctrl-V</td>
<td>Paste the clipboard text into the current document.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Cut current line(s)</td>
<td>Ctrl-Shift-X</td>
<td>Cuts the current line (and any lines with a
selection) to the clipboard.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Copy current line(s)</td>
<td>Ctrl-Shift-C</td>
<td>Copies the current line (and any lines with a
selection) to the clipboard.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>Select</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Select all</td>
<td>Ctrl-A</td>
<td>Makes a selection of all text in the current
document.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Select current word</td>
<td>Alt-Shift-W</td>
<td>Selects the current word under the cursor.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Select current paragraph</td>
<td>Alt-Shift-P</td>
<td>Selects the current paragraph under the cursor
which is defined by two empty lines around it.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Select current line(s)</td>
<td>Alt-Shift-L</td>
<td>Selects the current line under the cursor (and any
partially selected lines).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>Insert</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Insert date</td>
<td>Shift-Alt-D</td>
<td>Inserts a customisable date.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Insert alternative whitespace</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Inserts a tab character when spaces should
be used for indentation and inserts space
characters of the amount of a tab width when
tabs should be used for indentation.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>Format</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Toggle case of selection</td>
<td>Ctrl-Alt-U</td>
<td>Changes the case of the selection. A lowercase
selection will be changed into uppercase and vice
versa. If the selection contains lower- and
uppercase characters, all will be converted to
lowercase.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Comment line</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Comments current line or selection.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Uncomment line</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Uncomments current line or selection.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Toggle line commentation</td>
<td>Ctrl-E</td>
<td>Comments a line if it is not commented or removes
a comment if the line is commented.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Increase indent</td>
<td>Ctrl-I</td>
<td>Indents the current line or selection by one tab
or by spaces in the amount of the tab width
setting.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Decrease indent</td>
<td>Ctrl-U</td>
<td>Removes one tab or the amount of spaces of
the tab width setting from the indentation of the
current line or selection.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Increase indent by one space</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Indents the current line or selection by one
space.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Decrease indent by one space</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Deindents the current line or selection by one
space.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Smart line indent</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Indents the current line or all selected lines
with the same indentation as the previous line.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Send to Custom Command 1 (2,3)</td>
<td>Ctrl-1 (2,3)</td>
<td>Passes the current selection to a configured
external command (available for the first
three configured commands, see
<a class="reference internal" href="#send-text-through-definable-commands">Send text through definable commands</a> for
details).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Send Selection to Terminal</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Sends the current selection or the current
line (if there is no selection) to the
embedded Terminal (VTE).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Reflow lines/block</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Reformat selected lines or current
(indented) text block,
breaking lines at the long line marker.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>Settings</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Preferences</td>
<td>Ctrl-Alt-P</td>
<td>Opens preferences dialog.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>Search</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Find</td>
<td>Ctrl-F</td>
<td>Opens the Find dialog.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Find Next</td>
<td>Ctrl-G</td>
<td>Finds next result.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Find Previous</td>
<td>Ctrl-Shift-G</td>
<td>Finds previous result.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Replace</td>
<td>Ctrl-H</td>
<td>Opens the Replace dialog.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Find in files</td>
<td>Ctrl-Shift-F</td>
<td>Opens the Find in files dialog.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Next message</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Jumps to the line with the next message in
the Messages window.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Previous message</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Jumps to the line with the previous message
in the Messages window.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Find Usage</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Finds all occurrences of the current word (near
the keyboard cursor) or selection in all open
documents and displays them in the messages
window.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Find Document Usage</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Finds all occurrences of the current word (near
the keyboard cursor) or selection in the current
document and displays them in the messages
window.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Mark All</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Highlight all matches of the current
word/selection in the current document
with a colored box. If there's nothing to
find, highlighted matches will be cleared.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>Go to</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Navigate forward a location</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Switches to the next location in the navigation
history. See the section called <a class="reference internal" href="#code-navigation-history">Code Navigation
History</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Navigate back a location</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Switches to the previous location in the
navigation history. See the section called
<a class="reference internal" href="#code-navigation-history">Code navigation history</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Go to line</td>
<td>Ctrl-L</td>
<td>Opens the Go to line dialog.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Goto matching brace</td>
<td>Ctrl-B</td>
<td>If the cursor is ahead or behind a brace, then it
is moved to the brace which belongs to the current
one. If this keyboard shortcut is pressed again,
the cursor is moved back to the first brace.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Toggle marker</td>
<td>Ctrl-M</td>
<td>Set a marker on the current line, or clear the
marker if there already is one.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Goto next marker</td>
<td>Ctrl-.</td>
<td>Goto the next marker in the current document.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Goto previous marker</td>
<td>Ctrl-,</td>
<td>Goto the previous marker in the current document.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Go to tag definition</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Jump to the definition of the current word (near
the keyboard cursor). If the definition cannot be
found (e.g. the relevant file is not open) Geany
will beep and do nothing. See the section called
<a class="reference internal" href="#go-to-tag-definition">Go to tag definition</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Go to tag declaration</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Jump to the declaration of the current word (near
the keyboard cursor). If the declaration cannot be
found (e.g. the relevant file is not open) Geany
will beep and do nothing. See the section called
<a class="reference internal" href="#go-to-tag-declaration">Go to tag declaration</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Go to Start of Line</td>
<td>Home</td>
<td>Move the caret to the end of the line indentation
unless it is already there, in which case it moves
it to the start of the line.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Go to End of Line</td>
<td>End</td>
<td>Move the caret to the end of the line.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Go to End of Display Line</td>
<td>Alt-End</td>
<td>Move the caret to the end of the display line.
This is useful when you use line wrapping and
want to jump to the end of the wrapped, virtual
line, not the real end of the whole line.
If the line is not wrapped, it behaves like
<cite>Go to End of Line</cite>, see above.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Go to Previous Word Part</td>
<td>Ctrl-/</td>
<td>Goto the previous part of the current word.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Go to Next Word Part</td>
<td>Ctrl-</td>
<td>Goto the next part of the current word.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>View</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Fullscreen</td>
<td>F11</td>
<td>Switches to fullscreen mode.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Toggle Messages Window</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Toggles the message window (status and compiler
messages) on and off.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Toggle Sidebar</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Shows or hides the sidebar.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Toggle all additional widgets</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Hide and show all additional widgets like the
notebook tabs, the toolbar, the messages window
and the statusbar.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Zoom In</td>
<td>Ctrl-+</td>
<td>Zooms in the text</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Zoom Out</td>
<td>Ctrl--</td>
<td>Zooms out the text</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>Focus</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Switch to Editor</td>
<td>F2</td>
<td>Switches to editor widget.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Switch to Scribble</td>
<td>F6</td>
<td>Switches to scribble widget.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Switch to VTE</td>
<td>F4</td>
<td>Switches to VTE widget.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Switch to Search Bar</td>
<td>F7</td>
<td>Switches to the search bar in the toolbar (if
visible).</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Switch to Sidebar</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Focus the Sidebar.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Switch to Compiler</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Focus the Compiler message window tab.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>Notebook tabs</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Switch to left document</td>
<td>Ctrl-PageUp</td>
<td>Switches to the previous open document.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Switch to right document</td>
<td>Ctrl-PageDown</td>
<td>Switches to the next open document.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Switch to last used document</td>
<td>Ctrl-Tab</td>
<td>Switches to the previously shown document (if it's
still open).
Holding Ctrl (or another modifier if the keybinding
has been changed) will show a dialog, then repeated
presses of the keybinding will switch to the 2nd-last
used document, 3rd-last, etc. Also known as
Most-Recently-Used documents switching.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Move document left</td>
<td>Alt-PageUp</td>
<td>Changes the current document with the left hand
one.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Move document right</td>
<td>Alt-PageDown</td>
<td>Changes the current document with the right hand
one.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Move document first</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Moves the current document to the first position.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Move document last</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Moves the current document to the last position.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>Document</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Replace tabs by space</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Replaces all tabs with the right amount of spaces.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Replace spaces by tabs</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Replaces all spaces with tab characters.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Toggle current fold</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Toggles the folding state of the current code block.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Fold all</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Folds all contractible code blocks.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Unfold all</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Unfolds all contracted code blocks.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Reload symbol list</td>
<td>Ctrl-Shift-R</td>
<td>Reloads the tag/symbol list.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Toggle Line wrapping</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Enables or disables wrapping of long lines.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Toggle Line breaking</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Enables or disables automatic breaking of long
lines at a configurable column.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>Build</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Compile</td>
<td>F8</td>
<td>Compiles the current file.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Build</td>
<td>F9</td>
<td>Builds (compiles if necessary and links) the
current file.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Make all</td>
<td>Shift-F9</td>
<td>Builds the current file with the Make tool.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Make custom target</td>
<td>Ctrl-Shift-F9</td>
<td>Builds the current file with the Make tool and a
given target.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Make object</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Compiles the current file with the Make tool.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Next error</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Jumps to the line with the next error from the
last build process.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Previous error</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Jumps to the line with the previous error from
the last build process.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Run</td>
<td>F5</td>
<td>Executes the current file in a terminal emulation.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Run (alternative command)</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Executes the current file in a terminal emulation.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Build options</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Opens the build options dialog.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>Tools</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Show Color Chooser</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>Opens the Color Chooser dialog.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>Help</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Help</td>
<td>F1</td>
<td>Opens the manual.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="configuration-files">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id143">Configuration files</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="tools-menu-items">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id144">Tools menu items</a></h2>
<p>There's a <em>Configuration files</em> submenu in the <em>Tools</em> menu that
contains items for some of the available user configuration files.
Clicking on one opens it in the editor for you to update. Geany will
reload the file after you have saved it.</p>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">Other configuration files are not shown here and you will need to open
them manually and usually restart Geany to see any changes.</p>
</div>
<p>There's also a <em>Reload Configuration</em> item which can be used if you
updated a configuration file outside of the current instance. This
item is also necessary to update syntax highlighting colors.</p>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">Syntax highlighting colors aren't updated after saving
filetypes.common as this can take a short while depending on which
documents are open.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="global-configuration-file">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id145">Global configuration file</a></h2>
<p>You can use a global configuration file for Geany which will be used if
the user starts Geany for the first time and an user's configuration
file was not yet created or in case an user deleted the configuration
file to use default values.</p>
<p>The global configuration file is read from
<tt class="docutils literal">$prefix/share/geany/geany.conf</tt> (where <tt class="docutils literal">$prefix</tt> is the path where
Geany is installed, see <a class="reference internal" href="#installation-prefix">Installation prefix</a>) when starting Geany and
an user configuration file does not exist. It can contain any settings
which are found in the usual configuration file created by Geany but
does not have to contain all settings.</p>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">This feature is mainly intended for package maintainers or system
admins who want to set up Geany in a multi user environment and
set some sane default values for this environment. Usual users won't
need to do that.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="filetype-definition-files">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id146">Filetype definition files</a></h2>
<p>All color definitions and other filetype specific settings are
stored in the filetype definition files. Those settings are colors
for syntax highlighting, general settings like comment characters or
word delimiter characters as well as compiler and linker settings.</p>
<p>The system-wide configuration files can be found in
<tt class="docutils literal">$prefix/share/geany</tt> and are called <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">filetypes.$ext</span></tt>,
where <tt class="docutils literal">$prefix</tt> is the path where Geany is installed (see
<a class="reference internal" href="#installation-prefix">Installation prefix</a>) and $ext is the name of the filetype. For every
filetype there is a corresponding definition file. There is one
exception: <tt class="docutils literal">filetypes.common</tt> -- this file is for general settings,
which are not specific to a certain filetype.</p>
<div class="warning">
<p class="first admonition-title">Warning</p>
<p class="last">It is not recommended for users to edit the system-wide files,
because they will be overridden when Geany is updated.</p>
</div>
<p>To change the settings, copy a file from <tt class="docutils literal">$prefix/share/geany</tt> to
the subdirectory filedefs in your configuration directory (usually
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.config/geany/</span></tt>).</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
% cp /usr/local/share/geany/filetypes.c /home/username/.config/geany/filedefs/
</pre>
<p>Then you can edit the file and the changes are also
available after an update of Geany because they reside in your
configuration directory. Alternatively, you can create a file
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.config/geany/filedefs/filetypes.X</span></tt> and add only these settings you want
to change. All missing settings will be read from the corresponding
global definition file in <tt class="docutils literal">$prefix/share/geany</tt>.</p>
<div class="section" id="format">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id147">Format</a></h3>
<div class="section" id="styling-section">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id148">[styling] Section</a></h4>
<p>In this section the colors for syntax highlighting are defined. The
manual format is:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">key=foreground_color;background_color;bold_flag;italic_flag</tt></li>
</ul>
<p>Colors have to be specified as RGB hex values prefixed by
0x. For example red is 0xff0000, blue is 0x0000ff. The values are
case-insensitive, but it is a good idea to use small letters. Bold
and italic are flags and should only be &quot;true&quot; or &quot;false&quot;. If their
value is something other than &quot;true&quot; or &quot;false&quot;, &quot;false&quot; is assumed.</p>
<p>You can omit fields to use the <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;default&quot;</tt> named style.</p>
<p>E.g. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">key=0xff0000;;true</span></tt></p>
<p>This makes the key style have red foreground text, default background
color text and bold emphasis.</p>
<div class="section" id="using-a-named-style">
<h5><a class="toc-backref" href="#id149">Using a named style</a></h5>
<p>The second format uses a <em>named style</em> name to reference a style
defined in filetypes.common.</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">key=named_style</tt></li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">key2=named_style2,bold,italic</tt></li>
</ul>
<p>The bold and italic parts are optional, and if present are used to
toggle the bold or italic flags to the opposite of the named style's
flags. In contrast to style definition booleans, they are a literal
&quot;,bold,italic&quot; and commas are used instead of semi-colons.</p>
<p>E.g. <tt class="docutils literal">key=comment,italic</tt></p>
<p>This makes the key style match the <tt class="docutils literal">&quot;comment&quot;</tt> named style, but with
italic emphasis.</p>
<p>To define named styles, see the filetypes.common <a class="reference internal" href="#named-styles-section">[named_styles]
Section</a>.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="keywords-section">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id150">[keywords] Section</a></h4>
<p>This section contains keys for different keyword lists specific to
the filetype. Some filetypes do not support keywords, so adding a
new key will not work. You can only add or remove keywords to/from
an existing list.</p>
<div class="important">
<p class="first admonition-title">Important</p>
<p class="last">The keywords list must be in one line without line ending characters.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="settings-section">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id151">[settings] Section</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>extension</dt>
<dd><p class="first">This is the default file extension used when saving files, not
including the period character (<tt class="docutils literal">.</tt>). The extension used should
match one of the patterns associated with that filetype (see
<a class="reference internal" href="#filetype-extensions">Filetype extensions</a>).</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">extension=cxx</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>wordchars</dt>
<dd><p class="first">These characters define word boundaries when making selections
and searching using word matching options.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> (look at system filetypes.* files)</p>
</dd>
<dt>comment_open</dt>
<dd><p class="first">A character or string which is used to comment code. If you want to
use multiline comments, also set comment_close, otherwise leave it
empty.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">comment_open=/*</span></tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>comment_close</dt>
<dd><p class="first">If multiline comments are used, this is the character or string to
close the comment.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">comment_close=*/</span></tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>comment_use_indent</dt>
<dd><p class="first">Set this to false if a comment character or string should start at
column 0 of a line. If set to true it uses any indentation of the
line.</p>
<p>Note: Comment indentation</p>
<p><tt class="docutils literal">comment_use_indent=true</tt> would generate this if a line is
commented (e.g. with Ctrl-D):</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
#command_example();
</pre>
<p><tt class="docutils literal">comment_use_indent=false</tt> would generate this if a line is
commented (e.g. with Ctrl-D):</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
#   command_example();
</pre>
<p>Note: This setting only works for single line comments (like '//',
'#' or ';').</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">comment_use_indent=true</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>context_action_cmd</dt>
<dd><p class="first">A command which can be executed on a certain word or the current
selection. Example usage: Open the API documentation for the
current function call at the cursor position. The command can
be set for every filetype or if not set, a global command will
be used. The command itself can be specified without the full
path, then it is searched in $PATH. But for security reasons,
it is recommended to specify the full path to the command. The
wildcard %s will be replaced by the current word at the cursor
position or by the current selection.</p>
<p>Hint: for PHP files the following could be quite useful:
context_action_cmd=firefox &quot;<a class="reference external" href="http://www.php.net/%s">http://www.php.net/%s</a>&quot;</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">context_action_cmd=devhelp <span class="pre">-s</span> &quot;%s&quot;</tt></p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="build-settings-section">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id152">[build_settings] Section</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>error_regex</dt>
<dd><p class="first">This is a GNU-style extended regular expression to parse a filename
and line number from build output. If undefined, Geany will fall
back to its default error message parsing.</p>
<p>Only the first two matches will be read by Geany. Geany will look for
a match that is purely digits, and use this for the line number. The
remaining match will be used as the filename.</p>
<p><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">error_regex=(.+):([0-9]+):[0-9]+</span></tt></p>
<p class="last">This will parse a message such as:
<tt class="docutils literal">test.py:7:24: E202 whitespace before ']'</tt></p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p><strong>Build commands</strong></p>
<p>The build commands are all configurable using the <a class="reference internal" href="#set-includes-and-arguments">Set Includes and
Arguments</a> dialog.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>compiler</dt>
<dd><p class="first">This item specifies the command to compile source code files. But
it is also possible to use it with interpreted languages like Perl
or Python. With these filetypes you can use this option as a kind of
syntax parser, which sends output to the compiler message window.</p>
<p>You should quote the filename to also support filenames with
spaces. The following wildcards for filenames are available:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>%f -- complete filename without path</li>
<li>%e -- filename without path and without extension</li>
</ul>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">compiler=gcc <span class="pre">-Wall</span> <span class="pre">-c</span> &quot;%f&quot;</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>linker</dt>
<dd><p class="first">This item specifies the command to link the file. If the file is not
already compiled, it will be compiled while linking. The -o option
is automatically added by Geany. This item works well with GNU gcc,
but may be problematic with other compilers (esp. with the linker).</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">linker=gcc <span class="pre">-Wall</span> &quot;%f&quot;</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>run_cmd</dt>
<dd><p class="first">Use this item to execute your file. It has to have been built
already. Use the %e wildcard to have only the name of the executable
(i.e. without extension) or use the %f wildcard if you need the
complete filename, e.g. for shell scripts.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">run_cmd=&quot;./%e&quot;</span></tt></p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="special-file-filetypes-common">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id153">Special file filetypes.common</a></h3>
<p>There is a special filetype definition file called
filetypes.common. This file defines some general non-filetype-specific
settings.</p>
<p>See the <a class="reference internal" href="#format">Format</a> section for how to define styles.</p>
<div class="section" id="named-styles-section">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id154">[named_styles] Section</a></h4>
<p>Named styles declared here can be used in the [styling] section of any
filetypes.* file.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p><em>In filetypes.common</em>:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
[named_styles]
foo=0xc00000;0xffffff;false;true
bar=foo
</pre>
<p><em>In filetypes.c</em>:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
[styling]
comment=foo
</pre>
<p>This saves copying and pasting the whole style definition into several
different files.</p>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">You can define aliases for named styles, as shown with the <tt class="docutils literal">bar</tt>
entry in the above example, but they must be declared after the
original style.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id4">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id155">[styling] Section</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>default</dt>
<dd><p class="first">This is the default style. It is used for styling files without a
filetype set.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">default=0x000000;0xffffff;false;false</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>selection</dt>
<dd><p class="first">The style for coloring selected text. The format is:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Foreground color</li>
<li>Background color</li>
<li>Use foreground color</li>
<li>Use background color</li>
</ul>
<p>The colors are only set if the 3rd or 4th argument is true. When
the colors are not overridden, the default is a dark grey
background with syntax highlighted foreground text.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">selection=0xc0c0c0;0x00007F;true;true</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>brace_good</dt>
<dd><p class="first">The style for brace highlighting when a matching brace was found.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">brace_good=0xff0000;0xFFFFFF;true;false</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>brace_bad</dt>
<dd><p class="first">The style for brace highlighting when no matching brace was found.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">brace_bad=0x0000ff;0xFFFFFF;true;false</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>caret</dt>
<dd><p class="first">The style for coloring the caret(the blinking cursor). Only first
and third argument is interpreted.
Set the third argument to true to change the caret into a block caret.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">caret=0x000000;0x0;false;false</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>caret_width</dt>
<dd><p class="first">The width for the caret(the blinking cursor). Only the first
argument is interpreted. The width is specified in pixels with
a maximum of three pixel. Use the width 0 to make the caret
invisible.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">caret=1;0;false;false</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>current_line</dt>
<dd><p class="first">The style for coloring the background of the current line. Only
the second and third arguments are interpreted. The second argument
is the background color. Use the third argument to enable or
disable background highlighting for the current line (has to be
true/false).</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">current_line=0x0;0xe5e5e5;true;false</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>indent_guide</dt>
<dd><p class="first">The style for coloring the indentation guides. Only the first and
second arguments are interpreted.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">indent_guide=0xc0c0c0;0xffffff;false;false</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>white_space</dt>
<dd><p class="first">The style for coloring the white space if it is shown. The first
both arguments define the foreground and background colors, the
third argument sets whether to use the defined foreground color
or to use the color defined by each filetype for the white space.
The fourth argument defines whether to use the background color.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">white_space=0xc0c0c0;0xffffff;true;true</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>folding_style</dt>
<dd><p class="first">The style of folding icons. Only first and second arguments are
used.</p>
<p>Valid values for the first argument are:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>1 -- for boxes</li>
<li>2 -- for circles</li>
</ul>
<p>Valid values for the second argument are:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>1 -- for straight lines</li>
<li>2 -- for curved lines</li>
</ul>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">folding_style=1;1;false;false</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>folding_horiz_line</dt>
<dd><p class="first">Draw a thin horizontal line at the line where text is folded. Only
first argument is used.</p>
<p>Valid values for the first argument are:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>0 -- disable, do not draw a line</li>
<li>1 -- draw the line above folded text</li>
<li>2 -- draw the line below folded text</li>
</ul>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">folding_horiz_line=0;0;false;false</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>line_wrap_visuals</dt>
<dd><p class="first">First argument: drawing of visual flags to indicate a line is wrapped.
This is a bitmask of the values:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>0 -- No visual flags</li>
<li>1 -- Visual flag at end of subline of a wrapped line</li>
<li>2 -- Visual flag at begin of subline of a wrapped line. Subline is
indented by at least 1 to make room for the flag.</li>
</ul>
<p>Second argument: wether the visual flags to indicate a line is wrapped
are drawn near the border or near the text. This is a bitmask of the values:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>0 -- Visual flags drawn near border</li>
<li>1 -- Visual flag at end of subline drawn near text</li>
<li>2 -- Visual flag at begin of subline drawn near text</li>
</ul>
<p>Only first and second argument is interpreted.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">line_wrap_visuals=3;0;false;false</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>line_wrap_indent</dt>
<dd><p class="first">First argument: sets the size of indentation of sublines for wrapped lines
in terms of the width of a space, only used when the second argument is <tt class="docutils literal">0</tt>.</p>
<p>Second argument: wrapped sublines can be indented to the position of their
first subline or one more indent level. Possible values:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>0 - Wrapped sublines aligned to left of window plus amount set by the first argument</li>
<li>1 - Wrapped sublines are aligned to first subline indent (use the same indentation)</li>
<li>2 - Wrapped sublines are aligned to first subline indent plus one more level of indentation</li>
</ul>
<p>Only first and second argument is interpreted.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">line_wrap_indent=0;1;false;false</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>translucency</dt>
<dd><p class="first">Translucency for the current line (first argument) and the selection
(second argument). Values between 0 and 256 are accepted.</p>
<p>Note for Windows 95, 98 and ME users:
keep this value at 256 to disable translucency otherwise Geany might crash.</p>
<p>Only the first and second argument is interpreted.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">translucency=256;256;false;false</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>marker_line</dt>
<dd><p class="first">The style for a highlighted line (e.g when using Goto line or goto tag).
The foreground color (first argument) is only used when the Markers margin
is enabled (see View menu).</p>
<p>Only the first and second argument is interpreted.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">marker_line=0x000000;0xffff00;false;false</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>marker_search</dt>
<dd><p class="first">The style for a marked search results (when using &quot;Mark&quot; in Search dialogs).
The second argument sets the background colour for the drawn rectangle.</p>
<p>Only the second argument is interpreted.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">marker_search=0x000000;0xb8f4b8;false;false</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>marker_mark</dt>
<dd><p class="first">The style for a marked line (e.g when using the &quot;Toggle Marker&quot; keybinding
(Ctrl-M)). The foreground color (first argument) is only used
when the Markers margin is enabled (see View menu).</p>
<p>Only the first and second argument is interpreted.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">marker_mark=0x000000;0xb8f4b8;false;false</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>marker_translucency</dt>
<dd><p class="first">Translucency for the line marker (first argument) and the search marker
(second argument). Values between 0 and 256 are accepted.</p>
<p>Note for Windows 95, 98 and ME users:
keep this value at 256 to disable translucency otherwise Geany might crash.</p>
<p>Only the first and second argument is interpreted.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">marker_translucency=256;256;false;false</tt></p>
</dd>
<dt>line_height</dt>
<dd><p class="first">Amount of space to be drawn above and below the line's baseline.
The first argument defines the amount of space to be drawn above the line, the second
argument defines the amount of space to be drawn below.</p>
<p>Only the first and second argument is interpreted.</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal">line_height=0;0;false;false</tt></p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="id5">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id156">[settings] Section</a></h4>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>whitespace_chars</dt>
<dd><p class="first">Characters to treat as whitespace. These characters are ignored
when moving, selecting and deleting across word boundaries
(see <a class="reference internal" href="#scintilla-keyboard-commands">Scintilla keyboard commands</a>).</p>
<p>This should include space (\s) and tab (\t).</p>
<p class="last"><em>Example:</em> <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">whitespace_chars=\s\t!\&quot;#$%&amp;'()*+,-./:;&lt;=&gt;?&#64;[\\]^`{|}~</span></tt></p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="filetype-extensions">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id157">Filetype extensions</a></h2>
<p>To change the default filetype extension used when saving a new file,
see <a class="reference internal" href="#filetype-definition-files">Filetype definition files</a>.</p>
<p>You can override the list of file extensions that Geany uses for each
filetype using the <tt class="docutils literal">filetype_extensions.conf</tt> file.</p>
<p>To override the system-wide configuration file, copy it from
<tt class="docutils literal">$prefix/share/geany</tt> to your configuration directory, usually
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.config/geany/</span></tt>. <tt class="docutils literal">$prefix</tt> is the path where Geany is installed
(see <a class="reference internal" href="#installation-prefix">Installation prefix</a>).</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
% cp /usr/local/share/geany/filetype_extensions.conf /home/username/.config/geany/
</pre>
<p>Then edit it and remove all the lines for filetype extensions that
you do not want to override. The remaining lines can be edited after
the <tt class="docutils literal">=</tt> sign, using a semi-colon separated list of patterns which
should be matched for that filetype.</p>
<p>For example, to set the filetype extensions for Make, the
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/home/username/.config/geany/filetype_extensions.conf</span></tt> file should
look like:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
[Extensions]
Make=Makefile*;*.mk;Buildfile;
</pre>
</div>
<div class="section" id="templates">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id158">Templates</a></h2>
<p>Geany supports the following templates:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>ChangeLog entry</li>
<li>File header</li>
<li>Function description</li>
<li>Short GPL notice</li>
<li>Short BSD notice</li>
<li>Filetype template</li>
</ul>
<p>To use these templates, just open the Edit menu or open the popup menu
by right-clicking in the editor widget, and choose &quot;Insert Comments&quot;
and insert templates as you want.</p>
<p>Some templates (like File header or ChangeLog entry) will always be
inserted at the top of the file.</p>
<p>To insert a function description, the cursor must be inside
of the function, so that the function name can be determined
automatically. The description will be positioned correctly one line
above the function, just check it out. If the cursor is not inside
of a function or the function name cannot be determined, the inserted
function description won't contain the correct function name but &quot;unknown&quot;
instead.</p>
<div class="section" id="template-meta-data">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id159">Template meta data</a></h3>
<p>Meta data can be used with all templates, but by default user set
meta data is only used for the ChangeLog and File header templates.</p>
<p>In the configuration dialog you can find a tab &quot;Templates&quot; (see
<a class="reference internal" href="#template-preferences">Template preferences</a>). You can define the
default values which will be inserted in the templates. You should
restart Geany after making changes, because they are only read
at startup.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="file-templates">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id160">File templates</a></h3>
<p>File templates are templates used as the basis of a new file. To
use them, choose the <em>New (with Template)</em> menu item from the <em>File</em>
menu.</p>
<p>By default, templates are created for some filetypes. Custom file
templates can be added by creating the appropriate template file and
restarting Geany. You can also edit the default filetype templates.</p>
<p>The file's contents are just the text to place in the document,
except for the optional <tt class="docutils literal">{fileheader}</tt> template wildcard. This can
be placed anywhere, but is usually on the first line of the file,
followed by a blank line.</p>
<div class="section" id="custom-file-templates">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id161">Custom file templates</a></h4>
<p>These are read from the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.config/geany/templates/files</span></tt> directory
(created the first time Geany is started). The filetype to use is
detected from the template file's extension, if any. For example, creating
a file <tt class="docutils literal">main.c</tt> would add a menu item which created a new document with
the filetype set to 'C'.</p>
<p>The template file is read from disk when the corresponding menu item is
clicked, so you don't need to restart Geany after editing a custom file
template.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="filetype-templates">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id162">Filetype templates</a></h4>
<p>Filetype template files are read from the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.config/geany/templates</span></tt>
directory, and are named &quot;filetype.&quot; followed by the filetype
name, e.g. &quot;filetype.python&quot;, &quot;filetype.sh&quot;, etc. If you are
unsure about the filetype name extensions, they are the same as
the filetype configuration file extensions, commonly installed in
<tt class="docutils literal">/usr/share/geany</tt>, with the prefix &quot;filetypes.&quot;.</p>
<p>There is also a template file <tt class="docutils literal">filetype.none</tt> which is used when
the New command is used without a filetype. This is empty by default.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="customizing-templates">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id163">Customizing templates</a></h3>
<p>Each template can be customized to your needs. The templates are
stored in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.config/geany/templates/</span></tt> directory (see the section called
<a class="reference internal" href="#command-line-options">Command line options</a> for further information about the configuration
directory). Just open the desired template with an editor (ideally,
Geany ;-) ) and edit the template to your needs. There are some
wildcards which will be automatically replaced by Geany at startup.</p>
<div class="section" id="template-wildcards">
<h4><a class="toc-backref" href="#id164">Template wildcards</a></h4>
<p>All wildcards must be enclosed by &quot;{&quot; and &quot;}&quot;, e.g. {date}.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="14%" />
<col width="46%" />
<col width="40%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Wildcard</th>
<th class="head">Description</th>
<th class="head">Available in</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>developer</td>
<td>The name of the developer.</td>
<td>filetype templates, file header,
function description, ChangeLog entry,
bsd, gpl, snippets</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>initial</td>
<td>The developer's initials, e.g. &quot;ET&quot; for
Enrico Tröger or &quot;JFD&quot; for John Foobar Doe.</td>
<td>filetype templates, file header,
function description, ChangeLog entry,
bsd, gpl, snippets</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>mail</td>
<td>The email address of the developer.</td>
<td>filetype templates, file header,
function description, ChangeLog entry,
bsd, gpl, snippets</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>company</td>
<td>The company the developer is working for.</td>
<td>filetype templates, file header,
function description, ChangeLog entry,
bsd, gpl, snippets</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>year <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id9" id="id6">[1]</a></td>
<td>The current year. Default format is: YYYY</td>
<td>filetype templates, file header,
function description, ChangeLog entry,
bsd, gpl, snippets</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>version</td>
<td>The initial version of a new file.</td>
<td>filetype templates, file header,
function description, ChangeLog entry,
bsd, gpl, snippets</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>date <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id9" id="id7">[1]</a></td>
<td>The current date. Default format: YYYY-MM-DD.</td>
<td>filetype templates, file header,
function description, ChangeLog entry,
bsd, gpl, snippets</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>untitled</td>
<td>The string &quot;untitled&quot; (this will be
translated to your locale), used in
filetype templates.</td>
<td>filetype templates, file header,
function description, ChangeLog entry,
bsd, gpl, snippets</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>geanyversion</td>
<td>The actual Geany version, e.g.
&quot;Geany 0.18.1&quot;.</td>
<td>filetype templates, file header,
function description, ChangeLog entry,
bsd, gpl, snippets</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>datetime <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id9" id="id8">[1]</a></td>
<td>The current date and time. Default format:
DD.MM.YYYY HH:mm:ss ZZZZ.</td>
<td>filetype templates, file header,
function description, ChangeLog entry,
bsd, gpl, snippets</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>filename</td>
<td>The filename of the current file.</td>
<td>file header, snippets</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>gpl</td>
<td>This wildcard inserts a short GPL notice.</td>
<td>file header</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>bsd</td>
<td>This wildcard inserts a BSD licence notice.</td>
<td>file header</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>functionname</td>
<td>The function name of the function at the
cursor position. This wildcard will only be
replaced in the function description
template.</td>
<td>function description</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>fileheader</td>
<td>The file header template. This wildcard
will only be replaced in filetype
templates.</td>
<td>file header, snippets, custom filetype
templates</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="id9" rules="none">
<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td class="label">[1]</td><td><em>(<a class="fn-backref" href="#id6">1</a>, <a class="fn-backref" href="#id7">2</a>, <a class="fn-backref" href="#id8">3</a>)</em> The format for the <tt class="docutils literal">year</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">date</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">datetime</tt> wildcards can be changed
in the preferences dialog, see <a class="reference internal" href="#template-preferences">Template preferences</a>. You can
use any conversion specifiers which can be used with the ANSI C strftime function.
For details please see <a class="reference external" href="http://man.cx/strftime">http://man.cx/strftime</a>.</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="customizing-the-toolbar">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id165">Customizing the toolbar</a></h2>
<p>You can add, remove and reorder the elements in the toolbar by using the toolbar editor
by manually editing the file <tt class="docutils literal">ui_toolbar.xml</tt>.</p>
<p>The toolbar editor can be opened from the preferences editor on the Toolbar tab or
by right-clicking on the toolbar itself and choosing it from the menu.</p>
<div class="section" id="manually-editing-of-the-toolbar-layout">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id166">Manually editing of the toolbar layout</a></h3>
<p>To override the system-wide configuration file, copy it from
<tt class="docutils literal">$prefix/share/geany</tt> to your configuration directory, usually
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.config/geany/</span></tt>. <tt class="docutils literal">$prefix</tt> is the path where Geany is installed
(see <a class="reference internal" href="#installation-prefix">Installation prefix</a>).</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
% cp /usr/local/share/geany/ui_toolbar.xml /home/username/.config/geany/
</pre>
<p>Then edit it and add any of the available elements listed in the file or remove
any of the existing elements. Of course, you can also reorder the elements as
you wish and add or remove additional separators.
This file must be valid XML, otherwise the global toolbar UI definition
will be used instead.</p>
<p>Your changes are applied once you save the file.</p>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<ol class="last arabic simple">
<li>You cannot add new actions which are not listed below.</li>
<li>Everything you add or change must be inside the /ui/toolbar/ path.</li>
</ol>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="available-toolbar-elements">
<h3><a class="toc-backref" href="#id167">Available toolbar elements</a></h3>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="19%" />
<col width="81%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Element name</th>
<th class="head">Description</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>New</td>
<td>Create a new file</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Open</td>
<td>Open an existing file</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Save</td>
<td>Save the current file</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>SaveAll</td>
<td>Save all open files</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Reload</td>
<td>Reload the current file from disk</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Close</td>
<td>Close the current file</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>CloseAll</td>
<td>Close all open files</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Print</td>
<td>Print the current file</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Cut</td>
<td>Cut the current selection</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Copy</td>
<td>Copy the current selection</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Paste</td>
<td>Paste the contents of the clipboard</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Delete</td>
<td>Delete the current selection</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Undo</td>
<td>Undo the last modification</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Redo</td>
<td>Redo the last modification</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>NavBack</td>
<td>Navigate back a location</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>NavFor</td>
<td>Navigate forward a location</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Compile</td>
<td>Compile the current file</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Build</td>
<td>Build the current file, includes also a submenu for Make commands. Geany
remembers the last chosen action from the submenu and uses this as default
action when the button itself is clicked.</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Run</td>
<td>Run or view the current file</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Color</td>
<td>Open a color chooser dialog, to interactively pick colors from a palette</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>ZoomIn</td>
<td>Zoom in the text</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>ZoomOut</td>
<td>Zoom out the text</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>UnIndent</td>
<td>Decrease indentation</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Indent</td>
<td>Increase indentation</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Replace</td>
<td>Replace text in the current document</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>SearchEntry</td>
<td>The search field belonging to the 'Search' element (can be used alone)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Search</td>
<td>Find the entered text in the current file (only useful if you also
use 'SearchEntry')</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GotoEntry</td>
<td>The goto field belonging to the 'Goto' element (can be used alone)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Goto</td>
<td>Jump to the entered line number (only useful if you also use 'GotoEntry')</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Preferences</td>
<td>Show the preferences dialog</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Quit</td>
<td>Quit Geany</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="plugin-documentation">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id168">Plugin documentation</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="instant-save">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id169">Instant Save</a></h2>
<p>This plugin sets on every new file (File-&gt;New or File-&gt; New (with template))
a randomly chosen filename and set its filetype appropriate to the used template
or when no template was used, to a configurable default filetype.
This enables you to quickly compile, build and/or run the new file without the
need to give it an explicit filename using the Save As dialog. This might be
useful when you often create new files just for testing some code or something
similar.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="backup-copy">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id170">Backup Copy</a></h2>
<p>This plugin creates a backup copy of the current file in Geany when it is
saved. You can specify the directory where the backup copy is saved and
you can configure the automatically added extension in the configure dialog
in Geany's plugin manager.</p>
<p>After the plugin was loaded in Geany's plugin manager, every file is
copied into the configured backup directory when the file is saved in Geany.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="contributing-to-this-document">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id171">Contributing to this document</a></h1>
<p>This document (<tt class="docutils literal">geany.txt</tt>) is written in <a class="reference external" href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html">reStructuredText</a>
(or &quot;reST&quot;). The source file for it is located in Geany's <tt class="docutils literal">doc</tt>
subdirectory.  If you intend on making changes, you should grab the
source right from SVN to make sure you've got the newest version. After
editing the file, to build the HTML document to see how your changes
look, run &quot;<tt class="docutils literal">make doc</tt>&quot; in the subdirectory <tt class="docutils literal">doc</tt> of Geany's source
directory. This regenerates the <tt class="docutils literal">geany.html</tt> file. To generate a PDF
file, use the command &quot;<tt class="docutils literal">make pdf</tt>&quot; which should generate a file called
geany-0.18.1.pdf.</p>
<p>After you are happy with your changes, create a patch:</p>
<pre class="literal-block">
% svn diff geany.txt &gt; foo.patch
</pre>
<p>and then submit that file to the mailing list for review.</p>
<p>Note, you will need the Python docutils software package installed
to build the docs. The package is named <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">python-docutils</span></tt> on Debian
and Fedora systems.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="scintilla-keyboard-commands">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id172">Scintilla keyboard commands</a></h1>
<p>Copyright © 1998, 2006 Neil Hodgson &lt;neilh(at)scintilla(dot)org&gt;</p>
<p>This appendix is distributed under the terms of the License for
Scintilla and SciTE. A copy of this license can be found in the file
<tt class="docutils literal">scintilla/License.txt</tt> included with the source code of this
program and in the appendix of this document. See <a class="reference internal" href="#license-for-scintilla-and-scite">License for
Scintilla and SciTE</a>.</p>
<p>20 June 2006</p>
<div class="section" id="keyboard-commands">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id173">Keyboard commands</a></h2>
<p>Keyboard commands for Scintilla mostly follow common Windows and GTK+
conventions. All move keys (arrows, page up/down, home and end)
allows to extend or reduce the stream selection when holding the
Shift key, and the rectangular selection when holding the Shift and
Ctrl keys. Some keys may not be available with some national keyboards
or because they are taken by the system such as by a window manager
or GTK. Keyboard equivalents of menu commands are listed in the
menus. Some less common commands with no menu equivalent are:</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="67%" />
<col width="33%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Action</th>
<th class="head">Shortcut key</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>Magnify text size.</td>
<td>Ctrl+Keypad+</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Reduce text size.</td>
<td>Ctrl+Keypad-</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Restore text size to normal.</td>
<td>Ctrl+Keypad/</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Indent block.</td>
<td>Tab</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Dedent block.</td>
<td>Shift+Tab</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Delete to start of word.</td>
<td>Ctrl+BackSpace</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Delete to end of word.</td>
<td>Ctrl+Delete</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Delete to start of line.</td>
<td>Ctrl+Shift+BackSpace</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Go to start of document.</td>
<td>Ctrl+Home</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Extend selection to start of document.</td>
<td>Ctrl+Shift+Home</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Go to start of display line.</td>
<td>Alt+Home</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Extend selection to start of display line.</td>
<td>Alt+Shift+Home</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Go to end of document.</td>
<td>Ctrl+End</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Extend selection to end of document.</td>
<td>Ctrl+Shift+End</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Extend selection to end of display line.</td>
<td>Alt+Shift+End</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Previous paragraph. Shift extends selection.</td>
<td>Ctrl+Up</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Next paragraph. Shift extends selection.</td>
<td>Ctrl+Down</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Previous word. Shift extends selection.</td>
<td>Ctrl+Left</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Next word. Shift extends selection.</td>
<td>Ctrl+Right</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="tips-and-tricks">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id174">Tips and tricks</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="document-notebook">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id175">Document notebook</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Double-click on empty space in the notebook tab bar to open a
new document.</li>
<li>Double-click on a document's notebook tab to toggle all additional
widgets (to show them again use the View menu or the keyboard
shortcut). The interface pref must be enabled for this to work.</li>
<li>Middle-click on a document's notebook tab to close the document.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="editor">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id176">Editor</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Alt-scroll wheel moves up/down a page.</li>
<li>Ctrl-scroll wheel zooms in/out.</li>
<li>Shift-scroll wheel scrolls 8 characters right/left.</li>
<li>Ctrl-click on a word in a document to perform <em>Go to Tag Definition</em>.</li>
<li>Ctrl-click on a bracket/brace to perform <em>Go to Matching Brace</em>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="interface">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id177">Interface</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Double-click on a symbol-list group to expand or compact it.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="gtk-related">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id178">GTK-related</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Scrolling the mouse wheel over a notebook tab bar will switch
notebook pages.</li>
</ul>
<p>The following are derived from X-Windows features (but GTK still supports
them on Windows):</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Middle-click pastes the last selected text.</li>
<li>Middle-click on a scrollbar moves the scrollbar to that
position without having to drag it.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="hidden-preferences">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id179">Hidden preferences</a></h1>
<p>There are some uncommon preferences that are not shown in the Preferences
dialog. These can be set by editing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.config/geany/geany.conf</span></tt>, then
restarting Geany. Search for the key name, then edit the value. Example:</p>
<blockquote>
<tt class="docutils literal">brace_match_ltgt=true</tt></blockquote>
<p>The table below show the key names of hidden preferences in the
configuration file.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="34%" />
<col width="46%" />
<col width="19%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Key</th>
<th class="head">Description</th>
<th class="head">Default</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td><strong>Editor related</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>brace_match_ltgt</td>
<td>Whether to highlight &lt;, &gt; angle brackets.</td>
<td>false</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>show_editor_scrollbars</td>
<td>Whether to display scrollbars. If set to
false, the horizontal and vertical
scrollbars are hidden completely.</td>
<td>true</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>use_gtk_word_boundaries</td>
<td>Whether to look for the end of a word when
using word-boundary related Scintilla
commands (see <a class="reference internal" href="#scintilla-keyboard-commands">Scintilla keyboard
commands</a>).</td>
<td>true</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>complete_snippets_whilst_editing</td>
<td>Whether to allow completion of snippets
when editing an existing line (i.e. there
is some text after the current cursor
position on the line). Only used when the
keybinding <tt class="docutils literal">Complete snippet</tt> is set to
<tt class="docutils literal">Space</tt>.</td>
<td>false</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>Interface related</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>show_symbol_list_expanders</td>
<td>Whether to show or hide the small expander
icons on the symbol list treeview (only
available with GTK 2.12 or above).</td>
<td>true</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>allow_always_save</td>
<td>Whether files can be saved always, even if
they don't have any changes. By default,
the Save buttons and menu items are
disabled when a file is unchanged. When
setting this option to true, the Save
buttons and menu items are always active
and files can be saved.</td>
<td>false</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>VTE related</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>emulation</td>
<td>Terminal emulation mode. Only change this
if you have VTE termcap files other than
<tt class="docutils literal">vte/termcap/xterm</tt>.</td>
<td>xterm</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>File related</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>use_safe_file_saving</td>
<td>Defines the mode how Geany saves files to
disk. If disabled, Geany directly writes
the content of the document to disk. This
might cause in loss of data when there is
no more free space on disk to save the
file. When set to true, Geany first saves
the contents into a temporary file and if
this succeeded, the temporary file is
moved to the real file to save.
This gives better error checking in case of
no more free disk space. But it also
destroys hard links of the original file
and its permissions (e.g. executable flags
are reset). Use this with care as it can
break things seriously.
The better approach would be to ensure your
disk won't run out of free space.</td>
<td>false</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="section" id="compile-time-options">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id180">Compile-time options</a></h1>
<p>There are some options which can only be changed at compile time,
and some options which are used as the default for configurable
options. To change these options, edit the appropriate source file
in the <tt class="docutils literal">src</tt> subdirectory. Look for a block of lines starting with
<tt class="docutils literal">#define GEANY_*</tt>. Any definitions which are not listed here should
not be changed.</p>
<div class="note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">Most users should not need to change these options.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="src-geany-h">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id181">src/geany.h</a></h2>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="33%" />
<col width="48%" />
<col width="20%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Option</th>
<th class="head">Description</th>
<th class="head">Default</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>GEANY_STRING_UNTITLED</td>
<td>A string used as the default name for new
files. Be aware that the string can be
translated, so change it only if you know
what you are doing.</td>
<td>untitled</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_WINDOW_MINIMAL_WIDTH</td>
<td>The minimal width of the main window.</td>
<td>620</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_WINDOW_MINIMAL_HEIGHT</td>
<td>The minimal height of the main window.</td>
<td>440</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_WINDOW_DEFAULT_WIDTH</td>
<td>The default width of the main window at the
first start.</td>
<td>900</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_WINDOW_DEFAULT_HEIGHT</td>
<td>The default height of the main window at the
first start.</td>
<td>600</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><strong>Windows specific</strong></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_USE_WIN32_DIALOG</td>
<td>Set this to 1 if you want to use the default
Windows file open and save dialogs instead
GTK's file open and save dialogs. The
default Windows file dialogs are missing
some nice features like choosing a filetype
or an encoding. <em>Do not touch this setting
when building on a non-Win32 system.</em></td>
<td>0</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="section" id="project-h">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id182">project.h</a></h2>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="33%" />
<col width="48%" />
<col width="20%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Option</th>
<th class="head">Description</th>
<th class="head">Default</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>GEANY_PROJECT_EXT</td>
<td>The default filename extension for Geany
project files. It is used when creating new
projects and as filter mask for the project
open dialog.</td>
<td>geany</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="section" id="editor-h">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id183">editor.h</a></h2>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="33%" />
<col width="48%" />
<col width="20%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Option</th>
<th class="head">Description</th>
<th class="head">Default</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>GEANY_WORDCHARS</td>
<td>These characters define word boundaries when
making selections and searching using word
matching options.</td>
<td>a string with:
a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and
underscore.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="section" id="keyfile-c">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id184">keyfile.c</a></h2>
<p>These are default settings that can be overridden in the <a class="reference internal" href="#preferences">Preferences</a> dialog.</p>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="33%" />
<col width="48%" />
<col width="20%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Option</th>
<th class="head">Description</th>
<th class="head">Default</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>GEANY_MIN_SYMBOLLIST_CHARS</td>
<td>How many characters you need to type to
trigger the autocompletion list.</td>
<td>4</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_DISK_CHECK_TIMEOUT</td>
<td>Time in seconds between checking a file for
external changes.</td>
<td>30</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_DEFAULT_TOOLS_MAKE</td>
<td>The make tool. This can also include a path.</td>
<td>&quot;make&quot;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_DEFAULT_TOOLS_TERMINAL</td>
<td>A terminal emulator. It has to accept the
command line option &quot;-e&quot;. This can also
include a path.</td>
<td>&quot;xterm&quot;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_DEFAULT_TOOLS_BROWSER</td>
<td>A web browser. This can also include a path.</td>
<td>&quot;firefox&quot;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_DEFAULT_TOOLS_PRINTCMD</td>
<td>A printing tool. It should be able to accept
and process plain text files. This can also
include a path.</td>
<td>&quot;lpr&quot;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_DEFAULT_TOOLS_GREP</td>
<td>A grep tool. It should be compatible with
GNU grep. This can also include a path.</td>
<td>&quot;grep&quot;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_DEFAULT_MRU_LENGTH</td>
<td>The length of the &quot;Recent files&quot; list.</td>
<td>10</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_DEFAULT_FONT_SYMBOL_LIST</td>
<td>The font used in sidebar to show symbols and
open files.</td>
<td>&quot;Sans 9&quot;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_DEFAULT_FONT_MSG_WINDOW</td>
<td>The font used in the messages window.</td>
<td>&quot;Sans 9&quot;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_DEFAULT_FONT_EDITOR</td>
<td>The font used in the editor window.</td>
<td>&quot;Monospace 10&quot;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_TOGGLE_MARK</td>
<td>A string which is used to mark a toggled
comment.</td>
<td>&quot;~ &quot;</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>GEANY_MAX_AUTOCOMPLETE_WORDS</td>
<td>How many autocompletion suggestions should
Geany provide.</td>
<td>30</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<div class="section" id="build-h">
<h2><a class="toc-backref" href="#id185">build.h</a></h2>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="33%" />
<col width="48%" />
<col width="20%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr><th class="head">Option</th>
<th class="head">Description</th>
<th class="head">Default</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td>GEANY_BUILD_ERR_HIGHLIGHT_MAX</td>
<td>Amount of build error messages which should
be highlighted in the Compiler message
window. This affects the special coloring
when Geany detects a compiler output line as
an error message and then highlight the
corresponding line in the source code.
Usually only the first few messages are
interesting because following errors are
just aftereffects.</td>
<td>100</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="gnu-general-public-license">
<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id186">GNU General Public License</a></h1>
<pre class="literal-block">
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    &lt;one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.&gt;
    Copyright (C) &lt;year&gt;  &lt;name of author&gt;

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301 USA


Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.

If the program is interactive, make it output a short notice like this
when it starts in an interactive mode:

    Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) year  name of author
    Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
    This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
    under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.

The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the appropriate
parts of the General Public License.  Of course, the commands you use may
be called something other than `show w' and `show c'; they could even be
mouse-clicks or menu items--whatever suits your program.

You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or your
school, if any, to sign a &quot;copyright disclaimer&quot; for the program, if
necessary.  Here is a sample; alter the names:

  Yoyodyne, Inc., hereby disclaims all copyright interest in the program
  `Gnomovision' (which makes passes at compilers) written by James Hacker.

  &lt;signature of Ty Coon&gt;, 1 April 1989
  Ty Coon, President of Vice

This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into
proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library, you may
consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the
library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General
Public License instead of this License.
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<h1><a class="toc-backref" href="#id187">License for Scintilla and SciTE</a></h1>
<p>Copyright 1998-2003 by Neil Hodgson &lt;neilh(at)scintilla(dot)org&gt;</p>
<p>All Rights Reserved</p>
<p>Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and
its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and
that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
supporting documentation.</p>
<p>NEIL HODGSON DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE,
INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN
NO EVENT SHALL NEIL HODGSON BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR
CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS
OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE
OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.</p>
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